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“Reuters” faked images of Georgian victims allegedly killed by Russian attacks

Leann Bosworth | 31.08.2008 01:40 | Terror War | World

August 30, 2008

How psychological warefare was used during the Caucasian War by western corporate media against Russia

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 http://www.uruknet.info/pic.php?f=dead-woman-clutching-nursec2b4s-arm.jpg (Photo-1)

August 30, 2008

How psychological warefare was used during the Caucasian War by western corporate media against Russia

Tlaxcala published these evidence weeks ago. It is time to realize the dimension of effect on our minds by modern media warfare.
On September 1 the European Union is going to meet in Brussell to debate sanctions against Russia who has been attacked by NATO-backed Georgia. On September 2 US Vice President Dick Cheney will arrive in Georgia to support this President Saakashvili who has started all this.

May the worldwide public not sleep this time.

A few days after these pictures had been analyzed by the Russian blog "Russia Insider" and the Serbian blog "Byzantine blog" as fake ones, staged by the photographer David Mdzinarishvili, some of them have been simply removed from the website of "Reuters". Here the deconstruction made by "Byzantine blog".

This (upper) photo was first published by the Reuters as an image of a "dead woman being carried from the town of Gori". But this "dead woman", incredibly, is clutching the nurse’s arm.

 http://www.radio-utopie.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/same-area-male-actor.jpg (Photo-2)

This man exhibiting rage and grief happens to sit in the exact same place where the earlier picture was taken: the same pile of garbage is behind his back and scraps of metal from the picture of a "dead" woman being 'rescued’ are lying around like in the earlier photo — plus some, additional, unidentified scraps of metal. What are these supposed to represent?

 http://www.radio-utopie.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/first-film-set-near-curbstone.jpg (Photo-3)

The caption Reuters gave to this photo is "Georgians stand next to the body of their son in the town of Gori". The woman is looking up towards the sky from where, presumably, death had stricken "her son".

 http://www.radio-utopie.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/second-film-set-away-from-curbstone-body-removed.jpg (Photo-4)

But for the purposes of this photo the body of the "son" has been obviously moved quite a bit away from the curb. This was clearly not done in order to cover up the naked parts of the dead man’s body, nor to allow some measure of dignity to the dead. Was it done for the light? (One should challenge Reuters to find a mother — any mother — who would allow the body of her child to be dragged through dirt half naked like this, while she is taking instructions from a photographer where to stand, where to look and what to do next).

Then there are a few more photos of the male actor shown up above in the same area like the "dead woman".

 http://www.radio-utopie.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/two-male-actors.jpg (Photo-5)
 http://www.radio-utopie.de/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/two-male-actors-ii.jpg (Photo-6)

And then, then there is a further actor, a female, who arrived in time on a bigger film set in Tbilisi.

Leann Bosworth
- e-mail: leann@y4.dion.ne.jp

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tsk tsk

31.08.2008 09:20

Looks like someone must of been shooting a B rated rusian horror locally.

courtenay rogers


piss-poor 'analysis' from some who's never used a telephoto lens

31.08.2008 12:33

This purported expose of Reuters complicity in some elaborate Georgian conspiracy is rather let down by the claim that the body of the son has been moved, when clearly the difference in apparent distance is entirely accounted for by the foreshortening effect of a telephoto lens, as anyone with even a basic knowledge of photography would have considered.

yawn


You're bonkers mate.

31.08.2008 17:38

Get away from the computer and go to the bookshop where you can buy a book on beginners' photography! Watch out for those lizards on the way though.

John


No Fakery

31.08.2008 19:22

Although the case looks plausible at first glance, looking at all of the pictures from the two scenes (and despite what it says they are still on Reuters site) leaves no doubt in my mind that these pictures are genuine. It's also worth taking the time to look at the other pictures by these two photographers from Georgia.

Obviously if the initial caption of the top picture stated the woman was dead it was a mistake - but as the article says, one that Reuters has since corrected.

Publishing material like this is bad for the reputation of Indymedia, and I think it's important for us all to make clear that it is nonsense.

Peter

Peter Marshall
mail e-mail: petermarshall@cix.co.uk
- Homepage: http://re-photo.co.uk


Gaping hole in shirt

31.08.2008 20:28

Photos 3 and 4, the hole in the black T-shirt has changed in size between the two pictures. This is not due to a lens change. The scene has been altered in between the two shots. So there no-it-all-camera-experts.

Edsel


the 'scene'

01.09.2008 00:18

oh look, they burned down a building, just for show
oh look, they burned down a building, just for show

But the body hasn't moved as claimed on the Serb nationalist blogs this was copied from, it's still up against the kerb in the immediate foreground of both shots. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to notice that the man's mother is now kneeling next to the body in the second shot and is likely to have held her son one last time...

yawn


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