Proportions at the White House. An image of “white farmers” dead in Congo, attributed to South Africa by Donald Trump
The US President Donald Trump has shown a capture of a Filming of Reuters made in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of what he falsely presented on Wednesday as evidence of mass murder of the White South Africans, reports Reuters.
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“These are all white farmers who are buried”said Trump, raising a printed article accompanied by a photo, during the controversial meeting in the Oval Office with the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
In fact, in filming, published by Reuters on February 3 and subsequently verified by the News Agency team, it depicts volunteers who raise bodies in the city of Goma in Congo. The image was taken from the filming of Reuters made following the deadly battles with the M23 rebels, supported by Rwanda, according to News.ro.
The post shown to Ramaphosa by Trump during the White House meeting was published by American Thinker, a conservative online, in relation to conflicts and racial tensions in South Africa and Congo.
The posting did not credited the image, but identified it as “A screenshot from YouTube ” With a link to a video report on Congo on YouTube, in which the Reuters agency was credited.
The White House did not respond to the request to comment on this.
Andrea Widburg, editor at American Thinker and the author of the post in question, replied Reuters that Trump a “The image is wrongly identified.”
She added, however, that posting, which refers to what she called ”Dysfunctional, Marxist and race government ” of Ramaphosa, a ”showed the increasing pressure that is placed on the White South Africans ”.
The shooting from which the capture was made shows a mass burial after an M23 assault on the city of Goma, being made by the Djaffar video journalist.
“That day, it was extremely difficult for journalists to enter … I had to negotiate directly with M23 and coordinate with the International Red Cross Committee to be allowed to film,” said Al Kanty Said. “Only Reuters has filming”, he added.
Al Katanty said to see Trump holding the article with the screenshot of his filming was a shock.
“In the sight of the whole world, President Trump used my image, used what I filmed in Congo to try to convince President Ramaphosa that in his country the white people are killed by the color,” Al Kanty said.
Ramaphosa has paid a visit to Washington this week to try to repair relations with the United States according to Trump's persistent criticisms of South Africa laws, foreign policy and alleged treatments applied to the white minority, which South Africa denies.
Trump interrupted the television meeting with Ramaphosa to put a shooting, which he said showing genocide evidence against white farmers in South Africa. This theory of conspiracy, which has circulated on chats of the extreme right for several years, is based on false statements.
Trump then browsed images printed from articles that he said detailing the killing of white South Africans, saying: “Death, death, death, horrible death. “
