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Rusia memulakan kempen pengeboman anti-pengganas, bagi media sosial yang akan
dibanjiri dengan 'bukti' korban awam. Dakwaan itu mudah berulang kali oleh
media arus perdana Barat.
Kementerian
Pertahanan Rusia melaporkan bahawa ia dijalankan 20 sorties pada hari pertama
operasi Syria dan mengebom 8 sasaran di Syria, termasuk senjata dan depot bahan
api dan pusat-pusat perintah Negara Islam (IS, yang sebelum ini ISIS/ISIL)
kumpulan. Semua sasaran jauh dari kawasan bandar, kementerian tertekan.
Hampir
pada masa yang sama, laporan mula permukaan di media sosial mendakwa Rusia
tidak menyerang pengganas. Sebaliknya, ia mendakwa pesawat perang Rusia
menyerang kawasan perumahan, membunuh berpuluh-puluh orang awam. Yang lain
berkata: tidak ada IS kehadiran di kawasan serangan dan jawatan-jawatan ini
sebenarnya dipegang oleh "pemberontak sederhana."
Cerita
nampaknya dipasang terlalu baik ke dalam biasa 'Rusia adalah penjahat' naratif
untuk media Barat untuk lulus oleh. Wartawan bertanya kepada Setiausaha
Pertahanan Ash Carter untuk pengesahan.
"Saya
mahu berhati-hati mengesahkan maklumat, tetapi ia kelihatan bahawa mereka
berada di kawasan di mana terdapat mungkin tidak angkatan ISIL," katanya
kepada pemberita, kurang sedikit daripada yang mengesahkan dakwaan tersebut.
Menteri
Luar Rusia Sergey Lavrov bergurau bahawa wartawan yang ingin mendapatkan
maklumat yang tepat mengenai kempen Rusia perlu bertanya tentera Rusia dan
tidak Pentagon.
Pentagon
seolah-olah menjadi jengkel dengan kehadiran tentera Rusia di Syria. Carter
mengadu bahawa Moscow telah memaklumkan jabatannya serangan berlaku hanya 1 jam
lebih awal daripada masa, penjenamaan masa yang singkat tidak profesional.
Terdapat juga laporan bahawa Rusia telah menuntut pesawat pejuang Amerika Syarikat disimpan di ruang udara
Syria.
Information
warfare? Russia accused
of killing civilians in Syria . . .
It didn’t take long, after Russia began its
anti-terrorist bombing campaign, for social media to be flooded with ‘evidence’
of civilian casualties. The claims were readily repeated by Western mainstream media.
The
Russian Defense Ministry reported that it conducted 20 sorties on the first day
of the Syrian operation and bombed eight targets in Syria, including weapon and
fuel depots and command centers of the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL)
group. All targets were far from urban areas, the ministry stressed.
Virtually
simultaneously, reports started surfacing on social media claiming Russia is
not attacking terrorists. Instead, it’s claimed Russian warplanes attacked
residential areas, killing dozens of civilians. Others said there was no IS
presence in the attack areas and these positions were actually held by
“moderate rebels.”
The
narrative apparently fitted too well into the familiar ‘Russia is the villain’
narrative for Western media to pass it by. Journalists asked Defense Secretary
Ash Carter for confirmation.
"I
want to be careful about confirming information, but it does appear that they
were in areas where there probably were not ISIL forces," he told
reporters, falling short of confirming the allegations.
Russia’s
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov joked that journalists who want to get accurate
information about the Russian campaign should ask the Russian military and not
the Pentagon.
The
Pentagon seems to be irritated with the Russian military presence in Syria.
Carter complained that Moscow had informed his department of imminent strikes
just one hour ahead of time, branding such short notice unprofessional. There
were also reports that Russia had demanded US warplanes be kept out of Syrian
airspace.
Russia strike in Homs today. 33 civilians killed
including 3 children and 1 @SyriaCivilDef
volunteer. 10:19 PM -
30 Sep 2015
Laporan
korban awam yang disebabkan oleh Rusia di Syria kebanyakannya berasal dari
kuasa-kuasa pembangkang Syria, yang menyalahkan Rusia untuk membantu Presiden
Bashar Assad. Beberapa bukti gambar yang 'pembunuhan oleh Rusia' telah dengan
mudah ‘disproven’. Satu gambar seorang pekerja menyelamat Syria membawa seorang
gadis cedera ‘resulting’ dari "serangan Rusia di Homs" yang membunuh
33 orang awam, termasuk 3 kanak-kanak pertama kali muncul pada 25 September,
hampir seminggu sebelum serangan udara bermula.
Beberapa
video yang didakwa menunjukkan selepas pengeboman Rusia di Syria telah muncul
dalam talian. Pembangkang popular saluran YouTube dipanggil "talbisa
h" yang menghantar rakaman perang dari Syria yang dikeluarkan kira-kira 30
video dirakam di pelbagai lokasi, dengan mendakwa bahawa sesetengah daripada
mereka menunjukkan hasil tindakan Rusia. Media berita Barat seperti CNN,
Euronews dan agensi-agensi seperti Reuters menyiarkan video walaupun mereka
berkata mereka tidak dapat mengesahkan kebenarannya.
"Masalahnya
ialah bahawa semua orang adalah sangat ideologi ketika datang untuk kempen
Syria. Yang memesongkan laporan mereka, "Max Abrahams, penolong profesor
di Universiti Timur Laut, memberitahu RT.
Moscow
percaya ada kempen dirancang untuk melemahkan kedudukannya dalam konflik Syria.
"Laporan
berat sebelah dan palsu telah membanjiri media Barat dan serantau mendakwa
operasi tentera Rusia yang menyebabkan kematian orang awam atau bertujuan
menentang kuasa-kuasa pro-demokrasi dan penduduk aman. Itulah serangan
maklumat, peperangan maklumat yang kita semua telah mendengar banyak tentang.
Rupa-rupanya orang2 datang cukup bersedia untuk itu, "kata Mariya
Zakharova, jurucakap Kementerian Luar Rusia,.
"Semua
laporan memerlukan pengesahan berhati-hati kerana terdapat banyak maklumat yang
berat sebelah, diputarbelitkan dan palsu," kata jurucakap presiden Dmitry
Peskov, sambil menambah bahawa komunikasi melalui saluran yang betul merupakan
penyelesaian kerja kepada masalah ini. "Jangan menjadi mangsa kepada
maklumat itu."
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Rusia
telah menerima pelbagai tuduhan pada masa lalu yang kemudiannya terbukti palsu.
Pada tahun 2008, apabila Georgia melancarkan serangan ke atas Ossetia Selatan,
membunuh pasukan pengaman Rusia dan memprovokasi tindak balas ketenteraan dari
Moscow, Tbilisi pergi pada serangan media untuk menggambarkan dirinya sebagai
mangsa pencerobohan Rusia. Dakwaan-dakwaan tersebut telah diambil pada nilai
muka oleh media Barat selama beberapa hari.
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Pada
tahun lalu, Rusia telah berulang kali dituduh menyerang Ukraine oleh
pegawai-pegawai di Kiev dan beberapa penajaan. Sekali lagi, gambar dari media
sosial telah dibentangkan sebagai bukti pencerobohan yang dikatakan dan juga
disahkan oleh pegawai Amerika dan media. Kadang-kadang, ini mengakibatkan
penghinaan utama, apabila gambar kemudiannya didedahkan sebagai palsu.
Amateur video allegedly
shows aftermath of a Russian airstrike. © Reuters/YouTube
Reports
of civilian casualties caused by Russia in Syria mostly originate from the
Syrian opposition forces, who blame Russia for helping President Bashar Assad.
Some of the photo evidence of the ‘killings by Russia’ was easily disproven. A
photo of a Syrian rescue worker carrying an injured girl –resulting from a
“Russian strike in Homs” that killed 33 civilians, including three children
first appeared on September 25, almost a week before the airstrikes started.
A
number of videos allegedly showing the aftermath of Russian bombings in Syria
has surfaced online. A popular opposition YouTube channel called “talbisa h”
that is posting war footage from Syria released some 30 videos shot at various
locations, claiming that some of them showed the results of Russia’s actions.
Major Western news outlets such as CNN, Euronews and agencies like Reuters
aired the videos even though they said they couldn’t verify their veracity.
“The
problem is that everyone is very ideological when it comes to the Syrian
campaign. That distorts their reporting,” Max Abrahams, assistant professor at
Northeastern University, told RT.
Moscow
believes there is an orchestrated campaign to undermine its position in the
Syrian conflict.
“Biased
and false reports have flooded Western and regional media claiming the Russian
military operation is causing civilian deaths or even is aimed against
pro-democratic forces and the peaceful population. That is an information
attack, the information warfare that we all have heard so much about.
Apparently someone came well-prepared for it,” Mariya Zakharova, spokesperson
for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said.
“All reports require very careful verification
as there is plenty of biased, distorted and false information,” said presidential spokesman Dmitry
Peskov, adding that communication through proper channels is a working solution
to the problem. “Don’t fall
victim to that information.”
Russia
has had its share of accusations in the past that were later proven false. In
2008, when Georgia launched an attack on South Ossetia, killing Russian
peacekeepers and provoking a military response from Moscow, Tbilisi went on a
media offensive to portray itself as a victim of Russian aggression. The
allegations were taken at face value by Western media for days.
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In the
past year, Russia has been repeatedly accused of invading Ukraine by officials
in Kiev and some of its sponsors. Again, photos from social media were
presented as evidence of the alleged invasion and even endorsed by American
officials and media. Occasionally, this resulted in major humiliation, when the
photos were later exposed as fakes.
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