#26 Archived Message
Posted by Ian M on August 1, 2022, 10:53 pm, in reply to "Project: to find 29 examples of the BBC failing 'due impartiality' in Ukraine reporting"
The one-sided allegations come thick and fast in this one: #26: Ukraine war ‘a horror story of violations against civilians’, April 22nd:
Newsreader: 'Hello, and a very warm welcome, and let's start with some breaking news: the UN human rights office has issued a damning statement describing the war in Ukraine as a horror story of violations against civilians in which respect for international law has been tossed aside. The UN monitoring mission in Ukraine has documented the unlawful killing of 50 civilians in Bucha northwest of Kiev, a town shattered in the fight for control of Ukraine's capital. The UN said such killings amount to war crimes and this comes as Ukrainian officials accuse Russian forces of burying the bodies of hundreds of civilians in mass graves outside the besieged city of Mariupol. Now this is a picture taken by the US satellite company Maxar on the 19th of March. It shows a cemetery in the village of Manhush [?] just outside Mariupol. Images taken two weeks later on the third of April appear to show freshly dug trenches in Manhush. Now the mayor of Marupol says the photos show Russia was trying to conceal the number of people it had killed. Well, I'm joined now by Anna Foster our correspondent in Kiev. Anna, this looks like powerful evidence presented by the UN today.' Reporter Anna Forster: 'That's right, they say that they've documented the killings of 50 civilians in Bucha. I should just say by the way if you can hear the sound of sirens in the background here in Kiev that is still a regular feature of life here in Ukraine at the moment. So, 50 civilians - the UN say they have documented their killings and they express in their report a litany of indiscriminate killing, sexual violence and torture. It's worth saying as well in Bucha 50 deaths are a small number, it would seem, of the losses in that town. I have been there on various occasions now, and there is that mass grave next to the beautiful Saint Andrew's church in the middle of the town of Bucha, and estimates were that there were three to four hundred people buried in that mass grave alone. We've seen, of course, the pictures of bodies on the streets, bodies which appeared to have been shot in the back, people with hands bound behind their backs. The UN say that this is clear evidence of war crimes. I spoke actually to the chief prosecutor at the international criminal court here in Kiev the week before last. He said that they were gathering all of this evidence, that it was important for the legal process to take its course to try and produce some sort of meaningful result. But certainly from the UN human rights office today they say that not just in Bucha, in towns around Kiev and across the country now, they now have this clear evidence of war crimes having been committed by Russian forces.' ***** No comment from Russian officials about these very serious allegations. No discussion of the gaps in the Bucha narrative that had already started to emerge by the time of this report: https://thegrayzone.com/2022/04/03/testimony-mariupol-hospital-ukrainian-deceptions-media-malpractice/ No indication that Ukrainian forces may themselves have committed war crimes, eg: the footage of Ukrainian soldiers apparently shooting Russian POWs in the knees, which the BBC felt obliged to forensically investigate for itself before concluding it looked real: https://www.bbc.com/news/60907259 Any such rigour before relaying Ukrainian claims of Russian atrocities?
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- Project: to find 29 examples of the BBC failing 'due impartiality' in Ukraine reporting - Ian M July 26, 2022, 8:32 pm
- #2 - Ian M July 26, 2022, 11:25 pm
- #4 - Ian M July 27, 2022, 12:03 am
- #5 - Ian M July 27, 2022, 12:27 am
- Good work Ian. Hope to chime in once able to understand Ofcom dodgy use of changeable goalposts. nm - marknadim July 27, 2022, 1:37 am
- #6 - Ian M July 27, 2022, 6:55 pm
- Re: #7 - Keith-264 July 27, 2022, 8:11 pm
- Re: #7 - Ian M July 27, 2022, 11:01 pm
- #8 - Ian M July 27, 2022, 10:54 pm
- #9 - Ian M July 27, 2022, 11:22 pm
- #10 - Ian M July 27, 2022, 11:50 pm
- #11? Remember this one from Grayzone? "BBC correspondent-fixer shaping Ukraine coverage is PR op" - marknadim July 28, 2022, 5:56 am
- #12 - Ian M July 28, 2022, 6:52 pm
- #13 - Ian M July 28, 2022, 7:20 pm
- Re: #13 - Ian M July 28, 2022, 7:22 pm
- #14 - Ian M July 28, 2022, 8:21 pm
- #15 - Ian M July 28, 2022, 11:01 pm
- #16 - Ian M July 29, 2022, 11:25 pm
- #17 - Ian M July 29, 2022, 11:56 pm
- #18: - Ian M July 30, 2022, 7:53 pm
- #19 - Ian M July 30, 2022, 11:14 pm
- #20 and #21 - Ian M July 31, 2022, 12:05 am
- #22 - Ian M July 31, 2022, 7:27 pm
- #23 - Ian M July 31, 2022, 8:14 pm
- #24 - Ian M July 31, 2022, 11:18 pm
- Re: #24 - Tomski August 2, 2022, 10:00 pm
- #25 - Ian M July 31, 2022, 11:43 pm
- #26 - Ian M August 1, 2022, 10:53 pm
- #27 - Ian M August 1, 2022, 11:34 pm
- #28 - Ian M August 2, 2022, 12:14 am
- #29 - Ian M August 2, 2022, 7:01 pm
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