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uhnope

(6,419 posts)
Wed Jun 22, 2016, 08:34 AM Jun 2016

Russia's State TV Airs Evidence Of Russian Cluster Bombs In Syria

Source: RFE/RL

Russia’s state-run RT network has broadcast footage appearing to show Russian jets in Syria armed with cluster bombs, weapons which are widely condemned for their indiscriminate nature and which Moscow has denied using during its intervention in the five-year-old conflict.

A news segment aired by RT on June 18 showed two canister-like attachments under the wing of a Russian jet that bear codes identified by independent activists as those of Russian cluster munitions.

А group of Russian and Western bloggers known as Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) said parts of the segment were later edited to remove video of the weaponry, but then restored.

The use of Russian-built cluster bombs in the Syrian conflict has been documented by independent bloggers as well as human rights groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, though those assertions have been denied by Russian military officials.

Read more: http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-rt-tv-cluster-bombs-syria/27809812.html






RT own goal LOL. The only transparency in Russia is accidental.
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Russia's State TV Airs Evidence Of Russian Cluster Bombs In Syria (Original Post) uhnope Jun 2016 OP
Wonder what our resident expert on Russia will say, lol Duckhunter935 Jun 2016 #1
The resident experts on Russia will talk about how many people US killed in Iraq. DetlefK Jun 2016 #4
I think it's better to look at each incident, in itself. David__77 Jun 2016 #6
Whoops! ck4829 Jun 2016 #2
the US creates, sells and uses cluster bombs on innocent civilians J_J_ Jun 2016 #3
What is the specific hypocrisy? LanternWaste Jun 2016 #5

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
4. The resident experts on Russia will talk about how many people US killed in Iraq.
Wed Jun 22, 2016, 11:39 AM
Jun 2016

What's a few cluster-bombs?
The US killed soooooooo many people in Iraq. And Libya. And Afghanistan. And Yugoslavia. And again in Iraq. And in Vietnam. And in Japan. And ...

Taking all that into account, how dare you deflect from that history by talking about what kinds of outlawed bombs Russia does or doesn't use?

David__77

(23,220 posts)
6. I think it's better to look at each incident, in itself.
Wed Jun 22, 2016, 01:54 PM
Jun 2016

I think that the Russian intervention in Syria can be assessed without the assessing the US interventions elsewhere. Comparisons can be helpful; they can also represent a "but" or an invalidation of the subject at hand.

 

J_J_

(1,213 posts)
3. the US creates, sells and uses cluster bombs on innocent civilians
Wed Jun 22, 2016, 10:04 AM
Jun 2016

Does hypocrisy have no meaning?

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
5. What is the specific hypocrisy?
Wed Jun 22, 2016, 11:54 AM
Jun 2016

"Does hypocrisy have no meaning?"

What is the specific hypocrisy? A Russian state-owned media outlet accidentally aired a portion of a Russian military operation, which was then reported on by the European press offering no ethical nor moral judgement...

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