{"id":180900,"date":"2018-12-22T05:25:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T05:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=180900"},"modified":"2018-12-24T06:00:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T06:00:01","slug":"white-helmets-engaged-in-organ-trafficking-aiding-terrorists-looting-in-syria-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=180900","title":{"rendered":"White Helmets engaged in organ trafficking, aiding terrorists, looting in Syria: Watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 Dec 21, 2018<\/strong>
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This file photo shows a member of the so-called White Helmets “aid” group which independent researchers cite as an example of group members previously being part of terrorist groups in Syria. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The Western-backed White Helmets “aid” group has engaged in organ trafficking, terrorist logistics support and looting in Syria, a report presented to the UN said.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The evidence was presented by the director of the Russia-based Study of Democracy Foundation Maxim Grigoriev on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The report is based on interviews with over 100 eyewitnesses, including 40 White Helmets members, 50 local residents and 15 former terrorist fighters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over 500 civilians were also surveyed in the Syrian cities of\u00a0Aleppo and Deraa.<\/span><\/p>\n

“There is overwhelming evidence which proves that the White Helmets centers were permanently engaged in\u00a0building fortifications for\u00a0battle positions for\u00a0terrorist and illegal armed groups who had been supplying them with\u00a0water and food and evacuating wounded terrorists from\u00a0the front line,” said Grigoriev.<\/span><\/p>\n

Grigoriev detailed how the group provided\u00a0logistics support for armed groups, assisting in transporting troops and supplies.<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0researcher went on to quote\u00a0a White Helmets member from the formerly terrorist-held Syrian town of Douma saying, “for instance, we dug trenches in\u00a0the towns of\u00a0Mesraba and al-Shaifuniya and constructed an earthen mound.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The director presented harrowing accounts indicating the group’s involvement in human organ trafficking.<\/span><\/p>\n

“People evacuated by\u00a0the White Helmets often did not come back alive,” Grigoriev said quoting a witness from an area where the group operated.<\/span><\/p>\n

“For example, a person receives a minor injury, is rescued, evacuated and then brought back with\u00a0their stomach cut open and with\u00a0their internal organs missing.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Citing reports from the organization’s members in the Syrian town of\u00a0Saqba, the study also revealed extensive corruption within the group’s network, with leaders making private gains out of donations and members looting the civilian population.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Sometimes we came to\u00a0help, entered a flat, and, if we found gold or jewelry, seized it,” Grigoriev quoted a White Helmets member in\u00a0Douma. “In one flat, there was a woman who felt ill, we came to\u00a0help her, found some gold and stole it.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Reiterating previous reports about the group’s attempts at staging civilian casualties and chemical attacks, Grigoriev pointed to a particular case in Jisr al\u2011Haj, Aleppo where trash was set on fire and bodies were brought from a local morgue to stage a filmed rescue.<\/span><\/p>\n

A written testimony from a White Helmet member claimed that everyone involved had received an extra $50 for the effort.<\/span><\/p>\n

Grigoriev went on to explain that \u201cundeniable evidence\u201d\u00a0indicated the group had been taking written orders from terrorist groups and that almost all group members were paid staff, not volunteers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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White Helmets with al Qaeda militants. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The evidence, the researcher said,\u00a0proved that the White Helmets\u00a0is not an “aid group” but an extension of terrorist groups in Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFacebook accounts of members of the White Helmets are full of propagandist materials of terrorist groups, including [Daesh] and al-Qaeda, praising Osama bin Laden and other individuals listed by the UN as terrorists,\u201d\u00a0added Grigoriev.<\/span><\/p>\n

The director highlighted that \u201chundreds of photos with weapons in their hands\u201d were available on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s UN envoy Vassily Nebenzia, who\u00a0was also present at the UN hearing, said the evidence showed that \u201cthe White Helmets deserve to be on the United Nations\u2019 designated terrorist list.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The so-called White Helmets group, projected by the West as \u201ccivil defense workers,\u201d was established by former British Army officer James Le Mesurier in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

The self-styled volunteer rescue group has been repeatedly accused of acting as the media arm for Takfiri terrorist groups, and charged with staging false flag chemical attacks in a bid to prompt Western military intervention in Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

In July, several hundred people affiliated with the group were evacuated<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0from southern Syria to Israel amid a successful Syrian\u00a0Army operation in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n

The UK, Canada, and Germany have proudly announced interest in accepting the White Helmets as refugees.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nonetheless, these \u201chumanitarian rescue workers” have now been offered sanctuary in Germany, Britain and Canada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180931,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180900\/revisions\/180931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}