Syria: Todenhöfer condemns Massacre-Marketing-Strategy of the Rebels – German journalist Mr. Todenhöfer after his interview with President Bashar al

The German journalist, Mr. Todenhoefer (Todenhöfer), who has conducted an exclusive interview with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for the German state broadcaster ARD, has also published a guest article about his views on the situation in Syria in the German newspaper “Bild” today.

As usually, the views and assumptions by Mr. Todenhöfer are more balanced and objective than the general propaganda by the German mainstream media and so-called journalists.

Here are the short statements of the guest article by Mr. Todenhöfer, done through a small translation of the short article which was published by the German mainstream Magazine “Focus”.

Interview with Syrian President Assad

Todenhöfer condemns “massacre-marketing-strategy” of the rebels

In the cave of the lion: Jürgen Todenhöfer (Todenhoefer) has interviewed the Syrian ruler Assad. But the journalist exercises not only criticism on President after the broadcast. He accuses the rebels with “disgusting war crimes” – and the alliance with Al Qaeda.

In a commentary for the (German) newspaper “Bild” on Monday, the journalist Juergen Todenhoefer (Todenhöfer) has described the circumstances of his interview with Bashar al-Assad, which was broadcasted by (German state TV) ARD on Sunday.

It is not particularly surprising for him, that the Syrian government has made “precise conditions” for the interview, as Mr. Todenhoefer wrote. “No foreign cameraman was allowed to be in the reception room during the interview.”

The writer paints an ambivalent picture of the conflict situation in Syria: “The peaceful protesters of former times were marginalized. Who describes this war with the slogan: ‘A dictator is killing his own people’, has understood nothing.”

Criticism to both sides

Considering Assad, he has much to criticize, so Todenhöfer. “He bears the responsibility, that his security forces have shot in the crowd and killed civilians during the first protests in Daraa (Deraa). He has to answer for, that his security forces attack neighborhoods, where the armed rebels have entrenched behind civilians, with heavy weapons. It also kills civilians.”

Addressed to the opposition, he continues: “I criticize the radicalization of the rebel groups, because they kill civilians deliberately and then output them as victims of the government. This ‘massacre marketing strategy‘ is part of the most hideous thing that I have ever experienced in warfare. I blame the radical factions of the rebels that they have now allied with al-Qaeda fighters.”

The 20-minute interview on 5 July was recorded by the Syrian state TV in a guest house of Assad in Damascus. Mr. Todenhöfer – a former CDU member of parliament – has made the request for the meeting with Assad already eight months ago.

Short commentary:

As one can read, Mr. Todenhöfer does not agree to some statements of the allegedly two experts of ARD, who had a short debate about the situation in Syria after the broadcast of the interview between Mr. Todenhöfer (Todenhoefer) and the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

In addition, it is true that the so-called “Syrian rebels” use not only civilians as “human shields”, but also recruit and compel children in order that they fight in their ranks against the Syrian army and other government forces.

Of course, sometimes the children are fighting in the ranks of these radical militias because they want to. But that is a point that clearly falls back to the parents. It does not matter which reason is behind it, it is to condemn on all level.

The reason why no foreign cameraman was allowed to take the video? Bad experiences with Barbara Walters, ABC and other Western mainstream media – the recordings were too often distorted by the cuts, willfully to use it for propaganda purposes and to present Bashar al-Assad in a different light.


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