A new report offers the most thorough exposé to date of the OPCW’s Syria cover-up scandal

A new report offers the most thorough exposé to date of the OPCW’s Syria cover-up scandal, in which the world’s top chemical watchdog manipulated an investigation to baselessly accuse Syria of a chemical weapons attack in the town of Douma. In April 2018, after dozens of dead victims were filmed at the scene, the US, UK, and France alleged that the Syrian government had dropped gas cylinders on Douma and launched airstrikes in purported retaliation. But leaks from inside the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons show that international inspectors found no evidence of a chemical attack, raising the possibility that the incident was staged by the insurgents who controlled Douma at the time. The OPCW team’s findings were suppressed and replaced with unsupported conclusions that aligned with the US-led narrative. When two veteran OPCW inspectors who deployed to Syria for the probe challenged the manipulation, they were silenced and later publicly defamed. The report is authored by the Berlin Group 21, which is comprised of founding OPCW Director General Jose Bustani, former senior UN official Hans Von Sponeck, Princeton law professor Richard Falk, and academic Piers Robinson of the Organization for Propaganda Studies. Its release follows the Brazilian government’s recent public shift in support of accountability over the OPCW’s cover-up scandal. The report was submitted to members of the European Parliament as a contribution to discussions around the OPCW. Aaron Maté speaks to Von Sponeck and Robinson about their new report, as well as the ongoing effort to challenge the OPCW’s Douma deception and seek justice for the Douma victims. Guests: Hans von Sponeck and Piers Robinson. Links: New Berlin Group 21 report on the Douma scandal https://berlingroup21.org/wp-content/…

I remember at the time that OPCW Director General Jose Bustani, was publicly threatened in his office by war moustache John Bolton, who threatened him that they know where his kids go to school.  He had to resign under the pressure.

It is quite a time of secrets revealed.  One of the questions raised here, besides the many unsupported conclusions that aligned with the US-led narrative, is that there were no weapons of mass destruction, there was no attack at Douma, who then died?  And who killed them?  This was a process of threats, coercion, breaking of careers, smears – incredibly dirty.  The rot goes right through the UN, Nuremberg and other major organizations.  There is some harsh critique here on Russia and China who neither used their vetoes.  This was a tissue of unrelenting lies and coverup.

Lula from Brazil surprisingly is sponsoring this document and to my surprise, he is a long standing friend of Bustani.

A similar process is being spun up

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