Crucial to the Western narrative of the Syrian conflict is the assertion that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is a brutal dictator who has taken to killing his own people over the course of Syria’s six-year-long conflict. This allegation has been the crux of the ‘humanitarian’ justification for foreign military intervention in Syria that would seek to depose Assad’s government, a justification frequently used by the U. S. and its allies prior to an invasion or the toppling of an extant regime.
While this narrative has been pervasive in media coverage of the Syrian conflict, it is now being debunked by the very Syrian refugees that the media purported were fleeing Assad in the first place. According to a recent statement from Andrej Mahecic, a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, an estimated 440,000 displaced Syrians who remained in the country have returned to their homes since the year began. In addition, 31,000 refugees in neighboring countries also returned to Syria in the first half of the year, with 260,000 having returned to Syria from other nations since 2015.
UN Refugee Agency: Almost 500,000 Syrian refugees have returned home. Find out why: #UNHCR #standwithrefugees
— UNA-USA San Diego (@UNASanDiego) July 1, 2017
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jul 5, 2017.
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