SOSCO, a French NGO, helped send funds to a pro-Assad militia in Syria which has been accused of committing war crimes, New Lines magazine reports after 18-month investigation
SOSCO was designated a “partner” of France’s Ministry of Defence till last year, a position usually reserved for companies like high-tech defence contractors.The NGO has long maintained close ties with France’s political far right as well.
Open-source photographs even revealed the close ties between al Wakil’s militia and the IRGC, including a photo in which he poses with IRGC Quds Force commander Major General Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in Iraq on January 3, 2020, by a US air strike. The NGO had a successful campaign, she said, because "the political narrative was that Assad protected minorities, and this was a strong narrative."'Enough to open an investigation'
In these attacks, along with coordinated aerial assaults by the Assad regime and later Russian forces, thousands of people, many of them civilians, were killed. The funds in France from unknowing donors, who believed they were donating to humanitarian projects in Syria, in fact was going to the NDF.
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