Talk:Maan Massacre

Ran the Arabic name of the town through today's youtubes. Here's one "activist" telling the story to Al Jazeera Arabic: Execution of 23 civilians slaughtered with knives and burned to death at the hands of Assad forces. Nothing on Al Jazeera English's Syria Ticker, though. Also this report of a certain Al Haffa News turns up: Arabic: Musab al-Hammadi talking about meanings in Hama massacre 01/01/2013 And a couple of other Arab sources incl. Al Arabiya, apparently all pure "activist" talk with no specific footage: What is this, an Arab exclusive? Nobody but SPIEGEL informing the wider world? --CE (talk) 01:19, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35I1IVKCMvA
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XU7bF6BZzw
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guNn1wtnkhw


 * This is the trend in all propaganda: one set of lies for the Western audience, another set for those more likely to believe them. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 01:35, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * No, the Saudis et al. are more likely to sense the truth and tacitly approve. This increases funding among those who matter. That's my cynical, semi-informed opinion, anyway. But definitely as Petri notes, there's a divergence of info for the different character sets (Arabic or Roman) that's of crucial importance. Using both will get you way different results at Youtube or anywhere, of course. --Caustic Logic (talk) 05:03, 2 January 2013 (UTC)


 * No video of the dead, huh? How did they know of the deaths and details? Did they see it, or only hear about it? Every time 'the regime tries to frame the rebels' by killing people inside recently-conquered Alawite towns, the rebels don't want to show us the video, fearing it will look bad. It helps frame them. The other things that contribute are probably their own doing as well. --Caustic Logic (talk) 05:03, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

I took "مقتل 23 سوريا حماة معان " to Google Newsfor text reports. These two are hours old, likely related: --Caustic Logic (talk) 08:06, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Anba Moscow
 * Not much. Google Trans: "And documented Local Coordination Committees in Syria, with the end of Tuesday, 136 people, including 44 in Hama, and 23 in the village of glitter, and 42 people in Damascus and its countryside, and others." --Caustic Logic (talk) 08:06, 2 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Kuwait report KUNA
 * Seriously? No copy text option? --Caustic Logic (talk) 08:06, 2 January 2013 (UTC)