Report for European Parliament challenges OPCW’s Syria cover-up
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🗓️ 19 September 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pushback. I'm Arnete. If you followed my reporting, if you followed the gray zone, |
| 0:08.5 | then you will be very familiar with the OPCW's Syria cover-up scandal. This refers to the |
| 0:15.0 | organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons, the world's top chemical weapons watchdog, |
| 0:20.4 | doctoring and censoring its own findings into |
| 0:23.5 | an alleged chemical attack in Duma, Syria. And when this alleged attack happened, the U.S., |
| 0:29.0 | Britain and France, accused the Syrian government of dropping chemical weapons on Duma and bomb Syria. |
| 0:35.5 | And later on, the OPCW put out a report that aligned with the U.S., |
| 0:41.0 | UK, and France's claims. But then we got a series of leaks showing that the actual team that |
| 0:46.4 | went to Syria for this probe reached a much different conclusion, but their findings were |
| 0:51.4 | doctored and censored. And we've done a lot of reporting on this based on leaked documents as more and more material |
| 0:58.3 | continues to come out. |
| 1:00.0 | Now, if you've also followed the story, you will know there's been a huge effort to suppress |
| 1:03.9 | any accountability. |
| 1:06.1 | The OBCW has refused to meet with the dissenting inspectors, has refused to address the documented |
| 1:11.7 | acts of suppression and censorship of the Duma team's findings. And meanwhile, the U.S., |
| 1:17.7 | UK and France have led efforts at the UN to prevent any accountability, including blocking |
| 1:24.9 | the testimony of the OPCW's first director general, Jose Bustani, |
| 1:29.3 | who wanted to speak out in support of the whistleblowers and in support of accountability for the |
| 1:34.5 | Duma cover-up which they challenged. |
| 1:36.4 | Well, now we have a new report that offers the most comprehensive look at the Duma cover-up to date. |
| 1:43.3 | It's put out by a group called the Berlin Group 21, or known as BG21. |
| 1:48.7 | It's headed by Jose Bustani, who is the former Director General of the OPCW. |
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