It does sound rather lurid, a bit like Saddam Hussein’s troops throwing Kuwaiti babies out of incubators (which turned out to have been made up for selling Operation Desert Storm).

Of course, that’s not ruling it out, though it does feel like someone at some stage may have over-egged the pudding.

[–] fiat_lux@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Australian Government also had a "children being thrown overboard by asylum seekers coming by boat" scandal. I wonder how many others there have been.

[–] PupBiru@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

more info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_Overboard_affair

basically asylum seekers were passing their babies off a sinking boat to border patrol authorises and the government cropped it to make it look like they were throwing their kids overboard to shed weight and save themselves

[–] AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow

[–] PupBiru@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

yeah so that was our conservative government. no surprises there aye?

[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's one of the oldest tricks in the book. Preying on parental instinct is stupidly easy.

[–] jayrhacker@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, blood libel never gets old, sadly.