Response from Eva to ML FB thread Archived Message
Posted by mike on May 24, 2019, 4:33 pm, in reply to "Why Media Lens don't use Vanessa Beeley as source"
When in June 2017 I went to Madaya, it was with a different friend acting as translator, in his car, no military or other escort even though areas of Madaya had not yet been cleared of potential mines, including this area we saw, a terrorist bomb factory:
Interacting with people, the only sort of 'escort' the town mayor, which is appropriate since he knew how things played out in Madaya. https://www.mintpressnews.com/order-returns-to.../232380/ When I went to Daraa in May 2018, it was with one translator from the ministry of information, and yes military escort going to the national hospital—because al-Qaeda snipers lay 100 metres away https://www.facebook.com/EvaBoBeeva/posts/1925005744176077 https://www.facebook.com/EvaBoBeeva/posts/1925893510753967 https://twitter.com/EvaKBartlett/status/1011961517477113856 That said, military escort entailed one pickup truck or something driving ahead of our taxi, that's it. Dara'a was being shelled when I was there... When also in May 2018 I went to Hadar, southern Syria, my rented taxi was met by military escort (soldiers in a car...) the last leg because al-Qaeda were still occupying Jubatta al-Khashab 6 km away...and routinely firing on the road to Hadar. https://www.mintpressnews.com/welcome-to-hadar-a.../244569/ When in April 2018 I went multiple times to eastern Ghouta areas, it was solely with a translator from the ministry in a taxi I hired. No military escort.
When in September 2018 I went to Mhardeh, days after a massive terrorist attack which killed 13 civilians, it was again in a rented taxi with a translator. https://www.mintpressnews.com/mhardeh-a-call-from.../250281/ So, while there have been instances in which the Syrian army has provided a one-car escort, many times I've been on my own with just a translator, or on my own period. I know Vanessa has had the same sort of experiences, exposing herself to danger with no protection, in order to share the voices corporate media deliberately excludes because they are in “regime” areas... Its revolting, actually, how people like Ahmed can dismiss the testimonies of millions of Syrians whose stories should be heard simply because they live in areas secured by the Syrian government. Further, if one scrolls through my uploads, you'll find many videos where I'm interacting one on one with the Syrians I'm filming / interviewing... http://www.youtube.com/user/InGazaUpdates/videos... Now with all that, I need to get back to subtitling footage I took in Petare, Caracas, where again I did not travel with anybody except a friend from Western Caracas on his motorcycle and a local woman from Petare who showed me around. Recently, I had some great people offer to translate my Venezuela content, which is fantastic. However, the subtitles were not up to standard, so I'm manually going thru and correcting everything...
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