Schotse Professor wordt door Media afgemaakt omdat hij kritisch was rondom de ontploffing bij het Theater in Mariupol

Precies dezelfde technieken die we inmiddels zo goed kennen uit de coronatijd worden nu weer massaal ingezet: iedereen die ook maar durft vraagtekens te zetten bij het officiële narratief van de westerse overheden wordt hard aangepakt. Vrijheid van meningsuiting lijkt weer dood en iedere afwijkende mening dient grondig te worden neergesabeld. Hieronder een artikel van RT.Com – een website waarvan onze overheid heeft besloten dat wij die niet mogen zien omdat we anders zouden gaan twijfelen over de oneindige propagandastroom die ons via alle mediakanalen iedere dag worden aangereikt. Angst voor het verhaal van de ander. Angst dat mensen niet langer geloven wat de overheid verspreidt via haar mediakanalen.

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Professor faces government crackdown for questioning Ukraine narrative

A Scottish professor was slammed for sharing an article claiming the Mariupol theater bombing was “staged”

Professor faces government crackdown for questioning Ukraine narrative

A view of a destroyed theater hall in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 18, 2022 © Getty Images / Ukrainian Interior Ministry

University of Edinburgh professor Tim Hayward is being hammered in the media for sharing an article suggesting the bombing of a theater in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol may have been staged by Ukrainian nationalists. Hayward’s skepticism has already led Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi to promise a “crackdown” on such wrongthink.

Hayward shared an article on Sunday from the Grayzone, a left-wing news outlet. Citing eyewitnesses in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, the article claims that Ukrainian ‘Azov’ fighters – once described by western outlets and lawmakers as “neo-Nazis” – sheltered behind civilians in a theater in Mariupol, before blowing the building up as Russian forces entered the Ukrainian city.

Azov forces and journalists linked to the extremist unit accused Russia of bombing the building, and used the incident to call for western intervention against Russia. US President Joe Biden declared Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” in response, and American politicians from both parties and from Europe renewed their calls for military aid – including fighter jets – for Ukraine.

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 Civilians feared trapped and killed in Mariupol theater explosion

However, no video exists showing the theater being bombed and Russia denies attacking the building, stating that it had “never been considered as a strike target.” Conflicting reports of the weapons supposedly used and the civilian casualties or lack thereof only muddy the picture further.

Yet Hayward was condemned by his colleagues for raising the issue. In a Times article on Tuesday accusing him of “spreading propaganda,” Dr. Aliaksandr Herasimenka, a ‘misinformation’ researcher at Oxford University, said that “we must be very careful” when reading reports critical of the official narrative in Ukraine, and that outlets like the Grayzone “are currently engaged in a massive disinformation campaign.” He did not provide any evidence that would support such allegations against the media outlet.

Hayward has been singled out by the Scottish government too. Having shared articles questioning the alleged bombing of a maternity hospital in Mariupol and claiming that Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad did not gas his own citizens as Western sources insist, the professor was accused in Westminster last week by Tory MP Robert Halfon as being a “useful idiot for President Putin’s atrocities.”

Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi said that academics like Hayward were already being investigated, and that their universities would be contacted.

“Putin and his cronies are a malign influence on anyone in this country buying their false narrative, and I have to repeat it is a false and dangerous narrative, and we will crack down on it hard,” Zahawi said, without elaborating on how.

Speaking to Edinburgh Live, Hayward said that he is concerned about restrictions to free speech, and considers hearing both points of view important in wartime.

“In war, miscalculations can have terrible consequences. We also know that misinformation can sometimes even slip through on our own side, as when the UK went to war in Iraq, mistakenly believing it had weapons of mass destruction,” he said. “As for the people of Ukraine, their need is for peace – not to become the epicenter of World War III,” he added, referring to the widely-held belief that were Western powers to intervene in Ukraine, the consequence would be a third world war.

Azov-militanten bliezen Theater in Mariupol op waar ze mensen gegijzeld hielden

Civilians feared trapped and killed in theater explosion in Ukraine

Russia says neo-Nazi “Azov” militants blew up building where they were holding hostages

Civilians feared trapped and killed in theater explosion in Ukraine

File photo: Ukrainian soldier in Mariupol, Saturday, March 12, 2022. ©  AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov

Responding to claims by Ukraine that an airstrike destroyed a theater in Mariupol and killed civilians sheltering there, the Russian Defense Ministry said there had been no such strikes against ground targets in that city, and accused the neo-Nazi “Azov” battalion of killing its hostages.

The Russian military was aware of reports that “Azov” militants had kept civilians inside the theater as human shields, and did not consider the building a target for airstrikes for that reason, Major-General Igor Konashenkov said in a statement.

“Previously, it was known from the refugees who got out of Mariupol that the Nazis of the Azov Battalion could hold civilians hostage in the theater building, using the upper floors as firing points,” Konashenkov said. 

Taking into account the potential danger to civilians, and “the provocation already carried out by the nationalists on March 9 with hospital No. 3 in Mariupol, the theater building in the city center was never considered a target for destruction,” he added.

According to Konashenkov, the “available reliable information” indicates that Azov militants committed “a new bloody provocation by blowing up the theater building they had mined.”

The paramilitary Ukrainian unit that uses WWII Nazi symbols had made Mariupol its base, and reportedly forbid civilians from fleeing to safety as Russian forces and fighters of the Donetsk People’s Republic surrounded the city. 

Bron (door Nederlandse overheid gecensureerd): https://www.rt.com/russia/552101-mariupol-theater-ukraine/

Zie ook: https://www.frontnieuws.com/video-ontsnapte-burgers-uit-mariupol-klagen-misdaden-van-het-neonazistische-azov-regiment-aan/