Syria refutes CBS's "genocide" report

Thursday, 04 March 2010 09:06

Syria's Minister of Information Muhsin Bilal refuted the report of American CBS television channel which claimed that the evidences of so called Armenian genocide is in Syria. Minister stated that he has no information about the camera shooting of CBS television in Deir Zor city of Syria. "If we knew about such thing, we would not let them shoot," said he.

Replying the questions of Turkish journalists, Bilal said that CBS did not make any application for shooting a program in Deir Zor. Stressing that there is not such mass grave in the city as CBS had claimed in the show "60 Minutes" , Bilal said, "Such a mass grave does not exist here. The report is totally fake. If we had information about that, we would not let them to shoot here."

A few days ago, American CBS television gave space to Armenian allegations in the show "60 Minutes". Mentioning an "Armenian mass grave" in Deir Zor and showing bones, "Deir Zor is to Armenians what Auschwitz is to Jews,” said the CBS program.