(17.April) The doctor’s account is consistent with reports from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on 7 April. While the corporate media usually quotes the UK-based SOHR, mainstream journalists have not done so this time. Contrary to the dominant narrative, the SOHR has not reported on any chemical attack in Douma. Rather, the organisation wrote that “heavy and intense shelling” meant that “11 people at least including 5 children had suffocated”.
The SOHR has three reports from 7 April detailing injuries and fatalities from people starved of oxygen.
Locals “never believed in gas stories”