Italian
photographer, Marco Di Lauro, has exposed
the BBC which illegally used one of his photographs taken in Iraq as anti-Syrian
Propaganda on their website's front page.
Di Lauro said: "Somebody is using illegaly one of my images for anti syrian propaganda on the BBC web site front page.
Today Sunday May 27 at
0700 am London time the attached image which I took in Al Mussayyib in Iraq on
March 27, 2003 (see caption below) was front page on BBC web site illustrating
the massacre that happen in Houla the Syrian town and the caption and the web
site was stating that the images was showing the bodies of all the people that
have been killed in the massacre and that the image was received by the BBC by
an unknown activist. Somebody is using my images as a propaganda against the
Syrian government to prove the massacre."
Al Musayyib, Iraq - May
27, 2003
An Iraqi child jumps over
a line of hundreds of bodies, in a school where they have been transported from
a mass grave, to be identified. They were discovered in the desert in the
outskirts of Al Musayyib, 40 km south of Baghdad. It has been estimated that
between 10,000 and 15,000 Iraqis had been reported missing in the region south
of Baghdad. People have been searching for days for identity cards or other
clues among the skeletons to try to find the remains of brothers, fathers,
mothers, sisters and even children who disappeared when Saddam's government
crushed a Shi'ite uprising following the 1991 Gulf
War...
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