Life in Aleppo’s ruins: ‘We’ve had enough of dying, sitting at home, having no fun. We want to dance’This is typical of what passes for reporting on Syria. The governor is lying, the reason there are nine million displaced Syrians is that depopulating areas through bombing has been Assad's major tactic for two years. It appears Lindsey Hilsum is giving balance by putting the other side, but when nobody from the rebel side is heard, it is the supporters of Assad's genocide who seem like the credible ones. And thus is a media narrative created that is pro-Assad while having the appearance of balance.
'Government forces have relentlessly bombarded rebel areas, forcing out civilians, but the governor claimed that the people were coming to the regime’s side because the rebels had forced them out. “War is war, but we use bombs only in the area where rebels and Islamic State terrorists are, not where there are civilians,” he said. “There are no longer any civilians in rebel areas, because the rebels forced them to flee to safer places.” '
Much the way Israel claims that the Arab countries forced the Palestinians to flee in 1948. There are civilians left in the rebel-held areas, not everyone can get out, and for them the régime has created a Hell not like the government-held area the Guardian reports from.