If Putin was angry when Turkey shot down a Russian plane, which may or may not have crossed Turkish territory – reports on both sides are conflicting – he will be absolutely livid to learn that, according to Turkey’s Dogan News, the Russian pilots who had parachuted in an attempt to save their lives after the plane was shot down, had been executed while parachuting down by local rebels, which considering the video released earlier belonged to the Free Syrian Army, are same “rebels” who are funded directly by the CIA.
https://twitter.com/FercanY/status/669155122480594944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
And this:
DHA Muhabirinin görüştüğü Türkmen 2'nci Sahil Tümen Komutan Yardımcısı Alpaslan Çelik: Pilotlardan ikisini de paraşütle inerken vurduk
— Damla Doğan (@dmladogan) November 24, 2015
As Telegraph points out, the above tweet is from CNN Turk’s Foreign Editor who tweeted that the Turkmen rebels DHA spoke to said: “We hit at the two pilots after they parachuted.”
This, as many have already pointed out, is a war crime.
The only question is whether this, together with the provocative action by Turkey which many can see being an act of war, will be deemed as such by Putin.
The parachuters can be seen in the second half of the clip below:
For those who missed it, here is the video uploaded by the Free Syrian Army of at least one dead parachuter.
And here is the video of rebels opening fire on Russian pilots:
As one commentator notes, in the video one person shouts over the gun fire, “don’t fire. Let’s take them prisoners. Don’t fire. Prisoners” but it was not meant to be.
… Or maybe they survived. Refuting all prior news on the fate of the Russian pilots we now get this:
- 2 PILOTS OF DOWNED RUSSIAN PLANE ARE SAID TO BE ALIVE: NTV
- RUSSIAN PILOTS ARE HELD BY SYRIAN OPPS GROUPS: NTV
Just an attempt to diffuse an already lethal situation, or hope for some resolution? We should find out soon.
Update: as expected, it was a lie: According to preliminary data from the Russian General Staff, one Su-24 pilot was killed in the air by fire from the ground. The search and rescue operation is ongoing, according to the military body.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-24/russian-pilots-executed-while-parachuting-turkish-media
“… one person shouts over the gun fire, “don’t fire. Let’s take them prisoners. Don’t fire. Prisoners” but it was not meant to be.”
What kind of POS trash would kill a pilot in a parachute.
Napalm the scum, with phosphorous bombs throw in for good measure.
Tell that to the Nazis, the North Koreans, the communist Chinese, and the North Vietnamese. They continually murdered parachuting combatants in lieu of taking them prisoner. The ‘flyboy’s know the risks involved.
Or to Israelis shooting on people in lifeboats. (It is the same thing.) What makes theirs worse was that they wanted to burn someone else for it, by giving the US Government a justification of why the US would mix into the war on their side. Hence the secrecy, gag orders.
Where you been hiding, TranceAm?
Long time no see.
Been active on other fora. To sad, they delete stuff.
Not the admin tho, maybe the coder and for sure the members delete opinions they don’t like.
Nice to know, still being remembered.
Once I realized that I could speak freely here concerning THE most taboo topic on the planet (Holohoax denial) sans the constraints of moderation, I decided that I would post exclusively on FTT from then on. That was more than 2 1/2 years ago.
Glad to see you back.
Glad it wasn’t me pulling the trigger,better yet,not one of the fly boys.Everybody just stay in your own jack-yard and don’t back-off.