During the 2008 war in Georgia, a number of "international journalists" was caught staging scenes with civilians becoming victims of the war - often using the same group of hired performers, barely changing their clothes (often not even, like a "red dress grandma" lying dead on one location, wounded on another one - few days after - then running for safety on yet another stage!) In a most appalling case, photographers pulled out two bodies from a recent car crash, and dragged them to a nearby staged location to pose for "civilians caught in crossfire". As a particularly ugly twist, part of that process - when they were loading bodies into an SUV to move them further - was caught on video by some bystanders!
During the 2008 war in Georgia, a number of "international journalists" was caught staging scenes with civilians becoming victims of the war - often using the same group of hired performers, barely changing their clothes (often not even, like a "red dress grandma" lying dead on one location, wounded on another one - few days after - then running for safety on yet another stage!) In a most appalling case, photographers pulled out two bodies from a recent car crash, and dragged them to a nearby staged location to pose for "civilians caught in crossfire". As a particularly ugly twist, part of that process - when they were loading bodies into an SUV to move them further - was caught on video by some bystanders!
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