Russia's State TV Airs Evidence Of Russian Cluster Bombs In Syria
Source: RFE/RL
Russias 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.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)NATOs fault?
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)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)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.
ck4829
(34,977 posts)J_J_
(1,213 posts)Does hypocrisy have no meaning?
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"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...