Welcome to Pushback. I'm Erin Mate. Recently, I had the chance to speak before members of the

UN Security Council about the OPCW's Duma cover-up scandal. This is the story I've covered extensively

extensively at the Gray Zone about how the OPCW put out a report that

baselessly implicated the Syrian government in an alleged chemical attack in Duma in April 2018

after censoring its own findings, its own findings that showed actually there was no evidence

of a chemical attack in Duma and also showed evidence pointing to this incident

being staged by insurgents on the ground.

So I went before the UN for the third time.

I was invited by Russia, which organized this meeting.

And I spoke extensively about the cover-up

and the OPTW's latest attempts to whitewash it.

In this segment, I'm going to talk about a very significant development that happened at that meeting,

which was that Brazil, the largest country in South America and one of the largest countries in the world,

for the first time came out in support of accountability

for the Duma cover-up and came out in support of listening to those dissenting inspectors on

the Duma team who were silenced. So this was a very significant development that we're going to

talk about today. Before we get to that, though, let me just show you a couple of clips of what I said. If you want to see my full remarks, I'll link to them in the show notes for this episode. But just here's a brief clip of the message I brought to the UN Security Council. This is central to the issue of resolving of what happened in Duma, because we are now nearly

five years later since that horrific incident, those horrific images of all those dead bodies.

And the international watchdog that investigated this incident has suppressed its own findings

into that incident, leaving those deaths unresolved.

And so long as the OPCW continues to suppress the science, the doom of victims and their families

will remain without justice.

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