The Flight
MH 17 aircraft was precisely seventeen years old on the day of its fated flight
directly over a known war zone on July 17 2014, involved in an incident which
has become a study in Russophobic hysteria, manipulative propaganda and total disrespect for the victims
and their families by anti-Russian agents provocateurs.
Malaysia
Airlines Flight 17 (MH17/MAS17) was an international passenger flight from
Amsterdam, Netherlands to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia delivered on a Boeing
777-2H6ER aircraft which was precisely seventeen years old on its fated flight
directly over a known war zone on July 17 2014.
All on
board, 283 passengers and 15 crew, perished as the aircraft fell from the sky
and crashed in Donbass in an area held by anti-Fascist rebel forces defending themselves against attempted genocide by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. To date the official enquiry has produced no tangible or clear
conclusions.
False accusations against Russia
However, the international media and the western side of the international community are brimming with stories and false accusations against Russia. The day after the crash the television stations were broadcasting live coverage of a mourning Dutch mother directly appealing to President Putin to give back the body of her child, provoking waves of false sympathy among viewers. False, because President Putin did not shoot down the aircraft, neither was Russia involved in any way, shape or form and today, one year on, there is not a shred of evidence to the contrary.
Yet casting
the stone had already caused ripples on the pond. The name of the person -
President Putin, soon to become "Putin" in the Western press, as
Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti became "Saddam", Muammar al-Gaddafy became
"Gaddafy" and Bashar al-Assad became "Assad" - the name of
the country - "Russia", together with footage of a downed civilian
aircraft, children's clothes and burnt toys lying in a cornfield, all
components of the whole which is called public opinion manipulation. In a word,
a study in brainwashing.
They
could have showed footage of the Iran Air Flight 655 (IR655) shot down by the
USS Vincennes on July 3, 1988, with a loss of 290 civilians including 66
children, with the message: "We have seen this before" but they preferred to insinuate it was Russia even though the incident
happened over the border in another sovereign nation. It was and is this same
propaganda machine which swung into action against Russia and her President
that had previously claimed that Saddam Hussein was procuring yellowcake
uranium from "Nigeria" using forged documents and signatures from the
IAEA. He was not, the documents were false and anyway it is Niger, not Nigeria.
Russophobic propaganda factory
The same
Russophobic propaganda factory which claimed that Saddam Hussein had Weapons of
Mass Destruction. So where are they? The same Russophobic propaganda machine which claimed that Muammar al-Gaddafy was bombing
his own civilians. He wasn't. The same one which claimed he had strafed
civilian buildings, which later showed to be intact, without a scratch. How can
you bomb a building and leave it intact? When people lie.
The
same ones that showed massive "anti-Putin riots" which were in fact
anti-dissolution protests at the time of the voluntary dissolution of the USSR
twenty years before. The same ones that showed
hundreds of bodies "massacred by Assad" in Syria, only they were
pictures taken from Iraq a decade earlier, the victims of a western campaign.
They forgot to show the images of western aircraft strafing fields of cereals
in Iraq to create famine and murder hundreds of thousands of civilians through
lack of food. They forgot to show NATO aircraft strafing Libya's water supply,
depriving babies of water "to break their backs" and yes, they
actually said that.
And
today, ladies and gentlemen, here they are again, this time jumping on the
bandwagon, disrespecting the victims and families of the tragedy in Eastern
Ukraine, blaming Russia and her President for an incident without a shred of
evidence, taking up the words of the apparent psychopath Arseniy
Yatsenyuk, Ukrainian Prime Minister, a man filled with hatred and anti-Russian
hysteria, whose supporters during the Maidan riots in Kiev chanted "Death
to Russians and Jews" before agents fired against their own
"side" in the crowd from the sixth floor of Hotel Ukraine to
incriminate President Yanukovich.
Just five
days after the incident, after sifting through all the information at their
disposal, the official US position was that "There is no evidence that the Russian government is directly
involved in the shooting". On October
27, over five months later, the Dutch Chief Investigator Fred Westerbeke
claimed there was no evidence to incriminate the Russians.
The fact
that "evidence" was cooked up, as it was in the case of the
"wonderful foreign intelligence" proving that Saddam Hussein had WMD
- in fact a doctoral thesis copied and pasted from the Internet from a decade
earlier and then "sexed up" by Number Ten Downing Street and its
cronies, once again raises suspicions as to the veracity of the Western
propaganda machine, lacking as usual in any form or degree of emotional
intelligence.
False claims, amateur attempts at lying
The
Ukrainian Secret Services immediately released a tape which they claim were
telephone calls made by "Russian separatists" after the incident. For
a start, what is this "Russian separatists"
about? They are Ukrainians and they want to defend themselves against genocide
launched by a Russophobic government in Kiev, whose forces have already
perpetrated numerous massacres of Russian-speaking civilians. And the tape itself
is risibly amateur, being excerpts of four extracts copied and pasted together.
Meanwhile,
considerable evidence was growing from the other side, the social media, namely
that the aircraft had been shot down by a Ukrainian missile unit, or shot down
by Ukrainian Air Force aircraft tracking the plane and believing President
Putin was on board, then that there was a massive cover-up once the incident
had been discovered as a false flag event. None of this is even referred to in
passing.
Neither did
we get the official communiqué from a US spokesperson issued on July 22:
"At this point Matt, we said what our assessment is, it's a shown
assessment publicly. If there is more information that it's based on then we
can share, we're happy to do so, we'll continue to do that. But look this is
what we know of right now. Based on open information which is, basically,
common sense, right? We know where it's fired from, we know who had this
weapon, backed up by a host of information that we have gathered about who did
this, where it came from and what the weapon system was..."
Common sense?
Right, I
didn't get that either. What
I do get is that those pointing the finger at Russia are the same ones caught
lying time and time and time and time and time and time and time and time and
time and time and time again, and again, and again and again, those pointing
the finger at Russia do not have a shred of evidence and like any common
criminal, have a motive: isolate
Russia, find a reason to impose sanctions, carve up Siberia, foster internal
dissent and independence movements and weaken President Putin because he stands
for a strong, respected Russia which channels Russian resources to Russian
citizens and improves their livelihood in a strong and solid State with safety
on the streets, security on its frontiers and a comfortable standard of living.
The
official position of Russia, and myself, has from the very beginning and
constantly been let us show some respect for the victims and the families and
not play political games with the misfortune of others, something alien to an
immoral and amoral western clique of lobbyists which dictate western policy.
Timothy
Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda.Ru
*Timothy
Bancroft-Hinchey has worked as a correspondent, journalist, deputy editor,
editor, chief editor, director, project manager, executive director, partner
and owner of printed and online daily, weekly, monthly and yearly publications,
TV stations and media groups printed, aired and distributed in Angola, Brazil,
Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, Mozambique and São Tomé and
Principe Isles; the Russian Foreign Ministry publication Dialog and the Cuban
Foreign Ministry Official Publications. He has spent the last two decades in
humanitarian projects, connecting communities, working to document and catalog
disappearing languages, cultures, traditions, working to network with the LGBT
communities helping to set up shelters for abused or frightened victims and as
Media Partner with UN Women, working to foster the UN Women project to fight
against gender violence and to strive for an end to sexism, racism and
homophobia. He is also a Media Partner of Humane Society International,
fighting for animal rights.
Source:
English Pravda 18-07-2015
