‘Join Us or Die’: Aleppo Kids Tell Russian Media About Ordeal Under Jihadists
SputnikNews.com
01.04.2017
The campaign to liberate eastern Aleppo resulted in the destruction of many schools. Media and officials rushed to blame the Syrian government and their Russian allies of deliberately targeting the places of learning. Now, with the smoke from the fighting cleared, journalists have discovered that the schools were actually occupied by jihadists.
During last year’s campaign to liberate eastern Aleppo from jihadist militants, more than half of its schools were destroyed. Western politicians, pundits and media instantly jumped to point the finger at the Syrian government and Russia. Damascus said that the schools were filled with militants, not children. Several months after the end of the fighting, journalists on the ground have begun searching for the truth.
RT correspondent Lizzie Phelan decided to pay a visit to one of the schools formerly occupied by the Nusra Front (al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria). What the journalist discovered was a militant weapons storage facility and makeshift factory for the production of improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
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