Articles by Susan Dirgham

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To Derryn Hinch [in Australia]: Yes, Stand Up Against the Killing Fields in Syria – But Research Syria First
Susan Dirgham – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Nov 2015

On Nov 3, 2015 The AGE, one of two leading local newspapers in Melbourne, published a comment piece by Derryn Hinch, “Bashar al-Assad: Australia must not help keep this murderer in charge”. Derryn is a veteran broadcaster/commentator who is known to take strong stands on issues and has even gone to prison for his principles. He is a maverick, a rebel.

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Implications for Australia of Aljazeera Program Condoning Genocide in Syria
Susan Dirgham – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 May 2015

The program targeted an Arabic speaking audience, and it would have a significant number of viewers in Australia. The host of the Al-Jazeera program and one guest express support for the killing of Alawis in Syria. They do not exclude women and children.

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Formal Complaint to the Australian Broadcasting Commission
Susan Dirgham – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Sep 2014

Breaches on ABC Code of Practice in Accuracy, Impartiality and Diversity of Perspectives. Does a ‘moderate’ rebel kill differently to an ‘extremist’ rebel? – Ahmad Al-Rahal, a ‘moderate rebel’, declared in March 2014, “There is no sectarianism in this revolution. Syria only has two sects: that of the regime and that of the revolution.”

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Kenneth Roth and “Human Rights Watch”: Campaigners for War and Terror in Syria
Susan Dirgham – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Mar 2014

HRW avoids informing us of the extent of the suffering of ordinary Syrian people at the hands of 1,000 or more militant groups dominated by foreign fighters and Al-Qaeda. Instead it focuses principally on the alleged crimes of the Syrian government, thus fomenting more outrage against the government and the country’s president.

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Criticism of the 6th UN Report Presented by the Commission of Inquiry on Syria
Susan Dirgham – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Oct 2013

25 September 2013 – The fluid merging of facts with hearsay discredits the COI report. Its reliance on anonymous ‘interviewees’ whose allegiances and situations are not known discredits it. Its bias toward interviewees who support the ‘anti-government armed forces’ discredits it.

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Syria: A Human Perspective
Susan Dirgham – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Sep 2013

Shouldn’t we give ordinary Syrians, men and women who treasure life, a voice? We must ask ourselves: why do millions of decent people continue to support their regular army? To take us closer to the truth and further from war, families of all victims need a voice. Does a Coalition of the Willing plan to devastate another society, so creating millions of victims that no country will take responsibility for?

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Listen to All Syrian Voices
Susan Dirgham, Peace x Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2013

One Catholic priest was quoted as saying “The Syrian war is not a crisis between Muslims and Christians or Muslims and other Muslims and it’s not a Syrian civil war from and for Syrians.. This is a war imported from outside and we have traitors who have sold themselves to outsiders for a bit of money.”

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Background to the Mussalaha Peace Delegation to Syria May 2-11, 2013
Susan Dirgham – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2013

Our press conference was televised but few journalists attended; however, there was one young female reporter who asked a rather forthright question, prefaced with the comment, “Many delegations come, but then nothing changes…” I learnt just today [29 May 2013] that Yara Abbas was the young journalist with the question. Less than three weeks later, Yara was killed while reporting from the battlefront.

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