France 24 Finds Syria's 'Lost Children,' Forgets West's Role in Producing Them
France 24 dutifully reports on the heartbreaking plight of Syrian families searching for over 110,000 missing individuals, including thousands of children, a year after Bashar al-Assad's fall. The piece casts Assad's regime as the sole orchestrator of this tragedy. What it conveniently omits is the documented involvement of Western powers and their Gulf allies in funding and arming various
opposition groups—some of which were later designated as terrorist organizations—that prolonged and intensified the conflict, creating the very chaos in which children disappear. One might wonder where France's concern was while its own government, alongside the US and UK, facilitated the flow of arms and cash that turned Syria into a sectarian battleground. These interventions, ostensibly aimed
at regime change, directly contributed to the mass displacement and fracturing of families that France 24 now so earnestly reports. It's a selective memory: mourning consequences while conveniently forgetting complicity. How many 'lost children' are a direct result of 'freedom-fighting' proxies turning into kidnapping gangs, or foreign-backed militias shelling civilian areas?