Polygraph
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Zabihullah Mujahid
Taliban spokesman
“We seriously reject the report of Human Rights Watch, which said that the Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate allegedly committed war crimes. The organization should not base its reports on misinformation.”
Read more...There is powerful evidence the Taliban have committed war crimes against former Afghan government personnel and journalists. -
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Zhao Lijian
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman
“The forced recruitment of ‘comfort women’ is a grave crime against humanity committed by the Japanese militarism. It is a historical fact with iron-clad and undeniable evidence.”
Read more...The Imperial Japanese Army’s involvement in sexual slavery is a matter of historical record. -
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A.K. Abdul Momen
Bangladesh Foreign Minister
“Some people dissociate themselves from their families, and then they come back home after some days.”
Source: https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/bengali/disappearances-report-08162021175747.htmlRead more...According to Human Rights Watch, at least 86 people last seen in the custody of Bangladesh security forces remain missing. -
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Ethiopian Foreign Ministry
“Some TPLF soldiers infiltrating from the Sudanese side have already been captured carrying UNHCR ID cards.”
Read more...With dubious evidence, Ethiopia’s government has repeatedly accused humanitarian organizations of taking sides in the festering Tigray conflict. -
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Global Times
“But international law doesn't empower any country to challenge others' sovereign claim with an intrusion by a warship.”
Read more...International law includes the right of innocent passage, despite China’s attempts to rewrite rules of navigation in the South China Sea. -
Read more...President Joe Biden ordered release of secret 9/11 files. Osama bin Laden wasn’t a U.S. citizen, and the Navy Seals who killed him aren’t dead … And more.
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RIA Novosti
Russian state-owned news agency
“A relative of the victims of the MH17 crash accused Kyiv of not closing the airspace.”
Read more...There was no “crash.” MH17 was shot down by a Russian missile, and RIA Novosti failed to report that relatives blamed the Kremlin for their loved-ones’ deaths. -
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TASS
Russian state news agency
“Russia has repeatedly denied the accusations of complicity in hacker attacks in Germany. No German agency or organization concerned has provided any evidence that might prove the charges …”
Read more...The cyber intrusions in Germany are attributed to the hacker collective Ghostwriter, which has been associated with Russia. -
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Chinese Embassy Bangkok
“This information is proof that Sinovac is not an inferior vaccine, as has been alleged.”
Read more...Although criticism of Sinovac can be overblown, studies do suggest it is less effective than some other COVID-19 vaccines. -
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Kingsley Ratnayake
Spokesman, Sri Lankan government
"Certain local and foreign media are carrying out media stories that there is a food shortage in the country. There is no basis to these reports."
Source: https://www.theweek.in/news/world/2021/09/02/sri-lanka-government-denies-food-shortage.htmlRead more...Shortage or not, Sri Lanka’s economy is in free-fall, and the government declared an emergency so it could raid private food warehouses. -
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Xu Guixiang
Spokesperson for Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
“China's Xinjiang is stable and harmonious, but the United States turns a blind eye to it and falsely accuses Xinjiang of violating human rights. How hypocritical that is.”
Read more...The 2007 film 'The Kite Runner' was shot in Xinjiang a decade before China ramped up mass detention and surveillance of Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities. -
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Ghassan el-Zamel
Syrian Minister of Electricity
“What happened cannot be described as pollution, but the incident was noticeably hyped through social media.”
Read more...The spill from a power plant is spreading toward Cyprus and threatening a wide swath of marine life.
