Propaganda Value: Inhabitants Hostage and Responder Groups

propaganda value: Syrian and Russian state media maintain that rebels are holding the enclave 275,000 remaining inhabitants hostage to use as human shields, even as the government air force pounds the east hospitals and first responder groups, according to CBC. In the evening, the rebels began to fire at the crossing. Such claims are difficult to verify and often distorted owing to the propaganda value of the matter. Resident Hajj Mohammed al-Jasim Opposition outlets on the other hand want to show that civilians will never accept returning to the government heavy-handed rule. Over 300,000 people have been killed in the raging war. Russia has backed Syrian President Bashar Assad with vast military support as he fights to put down an uprising that is approaching its sixth year. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.