Amnesty Report: US-Led Coalition Killed Hundreds of Civilians in Syria’s Raqqa
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Introductory Note by Michel Chossudovsky
By Prof. Scott Lucas
Global Research
Featured image: A destroyed house where 28 members of the Badran family and five neighbors were killed in a US-led coalition airstrike on August 20, 2017, Raqqa, Syria (Amnesty International)
While the Amnesty Report confirms that the US-led coalition violated “international humanitarian law”, it fails to acknowledge that ISIS-Daesh was SUPPORTED by the U.S. coalition from the very outset.
And then President Obama ordered the conduct of “humanitarian bombings” with a view to “liberating Raqqa” from the clutch of the ISIS terrorists generously funded by America’s allies (including Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states).
America’s fake counter-terrorism “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) mandate was u...