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| World media attacking Syria |
| World media attacking Syria, says Foreign Minister
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| INDIA
, 2-August-2011
19:55:38 PM |
| Syria is facing international criticism for brutal crackdown on pro democracy protests, but Syrian Foreign Minister Feysel Mekdad in an exclusive interview to NDTV's Maya Mirchandani has said that the government is dealing with violent protests and casualty figures are exaggerated by the media.
Here's an excerpt of the interview:
NDTV: The question that is being asked of your government right now is how is it justifying these crackdowns that have killed so many people?
Feysel Mekdad: We don't need to justify a so-called crackdown because these violent actions you are speaking about were committed by extremist terrorist groups against the government. It is the opposite. The government is a victim of these atrocities committed by extremist groups. We are dealing with armed groups. We are not dealing with peaceful demonstrators. The international media is attacking Syria. Nowadays, is falsifying facts and misinforming the public opinion.
NDTV: My two follow-up questions to that. One is, since the so-called Arab Spring that one has seen across the middle-east and the region, when the protests began in Syria in the middle of March, since then about 1600 people have died. Are you saying that none of these people were actually peaceful pro-democracy protesters?
Feysel Mekdad: In fact, this figure is being exaggerated mainly by the Arab media because the mainstream Arab media is misinformed in their public opinion, is in the hands of western circles, directed by them for their own interests so this media is not dependable media, and the opposite is the reality. It is the government which has... Then I'll not speak or use their terms. I mean Arab spring or Arab Autumn and so on and so forth. So it is for their media to describe...
NDTV: So are you saying that none of them are actually people who are seeking some sort of a democratic government change in Syria?
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