rowan wrote:rowan wrote:Surprise, surprise . . .
Amnesty International itself has openly admitted that the summation of the report was fabricated in the United Kingdom at Amnesty International’s office, using a process they call “forensic architecture,” in which the lack of actual, physical, photographic, and video evidence, is replaced by 3D animations and sound effects created by designers hired by Amnesty International.
Amnesty Hired Special Effects Experts to Fabricate “Evidence”
In a video produced by Amnesty International accompanying their report, titled, “Inside Saydnaya: Syria’s Torture Prison,” the narrator admits in its opening seconds that Amnesty International possesses no actual evidence regarding the prison.
There are almost no pictures of its exterior [except satellite images] and none from inside. And what happens within its walls is cloaked in secrecy, until now.
Viewers are initially led to believe evidence has emerged, exposing what took place within the prison’s walls, but the narrator continues by explaining:
We’ve devised a unique way of revealing what life is like inside a torture prison. And we’ve done it by talking to people who were there and have survived its horrors…
…and using their recollections and the testimony of others, we’ve build an interactive 3D model which can take you for the first time inside Saydnaya.
The narrator then explains:
In a unique collaboration, Amnesty International has teamed up with “Forensic Architecture” of Goldsmiths, University of London, to reconstruct both the sound and architecture of Saydnaya prison, and to do it using cutting-edge digital technology to create a model.
In other words, the summation of Amnesty International’s presentation was not accumulated from facts and evidence collected in Syria, but instead fabricated entirely in London using 3D models, animations, and audio software, based on the admittedly baseless accounts of alleged witnesses who claim to have been in or otherwise associated with the prison.
Eyal Weizman, director of “Forensic Architecture,” would admit that “memory” alone was the basis of both his collaboration with Amnesty International, and thus, the basis for Amnesty’s 48 page report:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/fake-news- ... uk/5573847
Have you read it? Did anyone here who was spouting this obvious propaganda as gospel read the 48 page report first?
So who's the hypocrite here?
Its immediately clear that neither you nor global research really know what the word summation means.
In their report, Amnesty rely on testimony given by interview. Not either photographs or animations. They may have put together some kind of presentation using animation by way of trying to get an idea of what the prison looks like, but - this is the important bit so ay attention - their report into extra judicial murder doesn't seek to use this evidence *at all*, it simply uses the words of people who have actually seen/experienced the prison to try to understand what it happening there.
We all know what weight you give to actual eye witness statements rather than long range speculation.... EXCEPT you wont give it in this case, which rather shows you up, yet again.
So, just who is the hypocrite here?[emoji23]
This is from the methodology section of the paper:
The research for this report took place between December 2015 and December 2016. Amnesty International
interviewed 31 men who were detained at Saydnaya (also spelt Sednaya) between 2011 and 2015.1 Of
these, 20 were detained in the prison’s “red building”: five who were part of the Syrian military at the time of
their arrest and 15 who were civilians. The remaining 11 were detained in the prison’s “white building”,
including nine who were part of the Syrian military at the time of arrest and two who were civilians. As
explained below, the majority of those detained in the red building of Saydnaya since 2011 are civilians, and
the majority of those detained in the white building are soldiers or officers in the Syrian military.2
Amnesty International also interviewed four prison officials or guards who previously worked at Saydnaya;
three former judges, one of whom served in the Military Court in the al-Mezzeh neighbourhood of
Damascus;3
three doctors who worked at Tishreen Military Hospital; four Syrian lawyers; 17 international and
national experts on detention in Syria, such as investigators, analysts and monitors; and 22 family members
of people who were or still are believed to be detained at Saydnaya. The majority of these interviews took
place in person in southern Turkey. The remaining interviews were conducted by telephone or through other
remote means with interviewees still in Syria, or with individuals based in Lebanon, Jordan, European
countries and the USA.
In total, Amnesty International interviewed 84 people for this report. In many cases, two or more interviews
were conducted with key witnesses to evaluate the consistency and veracity of the information they provided.
In all but two cases, interviews with witnesses were conducted separately. Several interviewees shared their
testimonies with Amnesty International at significant personal risk. \0
It was so much easier to blame Them. It was bleakly depressing to think They were Us. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.
