Picture: Twitter/Moonnor27In the beginning of June 2017, the international coalition supposedly fighting ISIS, dropped illegal white phosphorus bombs on the civilian areas of Raqqa in Syria. The operation "Operation Euphrates Wrath" spearheaded by US-backed Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and their military wing the YPG, has begun to remove ISIS, or Da’esh, from Raqqa. But this onslaught does not come without major repercussions for the local population.
These Syrian people have been suffering under the brutal repression of Da’esh as well as the continuous aerial bombardment over the past three years, either by the international coalition, the Russians, or the Assad regime. Either way, the local population in Raqqa, is paying a very heavy price for the massive aerial attacks on the town to safeguard the “freedom and security of the west”, a popular narrative used to justify bombing civilian areas controlled by Da’esh.
However, as I write this, I have yet to see any western "ISIS specialist" journalist express any form of solidarity with the Syrian civilians of Raqqa, who are being held hostage by Da'esh and killed by phosphorus incendiary bombardment dropped by the international coalition. This is both interesting and deeply depressing. When I say “ISIS specialists” I don't mean academics but journalists who come and talk in western media talkshows: here is a list of journalists and some of their books.
