BBC reports that "Aleppo boy" was anti-Syrian propaganda.

a reply to: gortex
Probably because the rebels were preventing civilians from leaving to use as human shields, and the government were bombing and starving out the rebels. There's no "good" side for civilians to be on. And once you're in government control you're going to say what they want to hear.

a reply to: PhyllidaDavenport

You're probably thinking if his brother...

A Syrian boy has died from wounds from the airstrike that turned his younger brother, Omran Daqneesh, into an internationally known symbol of the devastation in the war-ravaged city of Aleppo.

Ali Daqneesh died Saturday from the injuries he sustained in the blast that hit the family's apartment in their Qaterji neighborhood Wednesday, the Aleppo Media Center said. He was 10 years old, according to the group.

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a reply to: WilsonWilson

Probably because the rebels were preventing civilians from leaving to use as human shields, and the government were bombing and starving out the rebels.

Or is that propaganda from the government side ?

And once you're in government control you're going to say what they want to hear.

Which seems to be what the boys father is doing which makes the anti-Syrian propaganda claim moot.

originally posted by: Chadwickus
a reply to: rickymouse

Read the article.

The bombing actually happened.

The boy actually got injured.

The photo was used to further an agenda, that's all.

From the article....."He added that Omran had suffered only minor injuries" But apparantly the blood on him was from those minor injuries which appears to be what you are saying.

a reply to: gortex

Here comes a recent local witness statement :

Interview with Flemish priest in Syria: "Putin and Assad saved my life"

"The idea that a popular uprising took place against President Assad is completely false. I've been in Qara since 2010 and I have seen with my own eyes how agitators from outside Syria organized protests against the government and recruited young people. That was filmed and aired by Al Jazeera to give the impression that a rebellion was taking place. Murders were committed by foreign terrorists, against the Sunni and Christian communities, in an effort to sow religious and ethnic discord among the Syrian people. While in my experience, the Syrian people were actually very united.

And an older - similar - one :

An Eyewitness to the Syrian Rebellion: Father Frans in His Own Words

An examination of texts published by Father Frans van der Lugt in 2011 and 2012 shows that the late Dutch Jesuit priest had a dim view of the Syrian rebellion, which he held to be the work of a violent minority, and favored a process of political reform in Syria to be implemented by the current government under President Bashar Al-Assad.

Father Frans was murdered under still unclarified circumstances in the embattled Syrian city of Homs earlier this month.(April 2014)

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From the start, the protest movements were not purely peaceful. From the start I saw armed demonstrators marching along in the protests, who began to shoot at the police first. Very often the violence of the security forces has been a reaction to the brutal violence of the armed rebels.

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Moreover, from the start there has been the problem of the armed groups, which are also part of the opposition….The opposition of the street is much stronger than any other opposition. And this opposition is armed and frequently employs brutality and violence, only in order then to blame the government. Many representatives of the government (regeringsmensen – Father Frans might also be referring to supporters of the government) have been tortured and shot dead by them.

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In the first place, it has to be said that it is very difficult to provide a nuanced and objective account of what is happening. Many journalists fall into describing matters in black and white. For them, good and evil are not interwoven, but are clearly separated. They demonize the one side and glorify the other. Thus, for example, it is not true that our (the Syrian) government has only bad sides and the opposition only good ones. But because the US, Europe and certain Arab countries support the opposition, they endeavor, whether consciously or unconsciously, to idealize it as much as possible, without engaging in any careful analysis of the real situation. Certain interests are obscuring our view of the real situation and contaminating the description of it.