I just immediately thought of the Iraq War testimony that somebody’s relative made up to an American committee about how Iraqis were murdering babies in incubators.
Her story was initially corroborated by Amnesty International, a British-based global NGO, which published a report about the supposed killings and testimony from evacuees. Following the liberation of Kuwait, reporters were given access to the country. An ABC report found that “patients, including premature babies, did die, when many of Kuwait’s nurses and doctors … fled” but Iraqi troops “almost certainly had not stolen hospital incubators and left hundreds of Kuwaiti babies to die.” Amnesty International USA reacted by issuing a correction, with executive director John Healey subsequently accusing the Bush administration of “opportunistic manipulation of the international human rights movement”…
On January 6, 1992, The New York Times published an op-ed piece by John MacArthur entitled “Remember Nayirah, Witness for Kuwait?” MacArthur discovered that Nayirah was the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the U.S., Saud Nasir al-Sabah.
Amnesty International USA reacted by issuing a correction, with executive director John Healey subsequently accusing the Bush administration of “opportunistic manipulation of the international human rights movement”…
How dare they opportunistically manipulate us by somehow making us fabricate witness testimony from evacuees? Surely we can all agree that the “international human rights movement” () is just a poor mislead smol bean.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony
Yes, that is the one.
Babies in incubators…such shameless lies, obviously chosen because of how well it tugs on the heartstrings.
So viciously manipulative.
It’s called “atrocity propaganda” and using that term you can find countless more stories.
How dare they opportunistically manipulate us by somehow making us fabricate witness testimony from evacuees? Surely we can all agree that the “international human rights movement” (
) is just a poor mislead smol bean.