Beautiful friend, Bassel Shehada, martyred by a mortar grenade in Homs on 28-5-2012. In this photo he was training activists in Homs on how to use the camera to cover regime violations of human rights. Bassel Left Fulbright scholarship to study film-making in the US and chose to be in Syria at this “historical moment,” as he once told me.
in blogpost : ►http://razanghazzawi.org/2012/06/09/statement-read-at-front-lines-hr-defenders-award-event-full-text #Syria
Dear friends, colleagues and comrades,
►http://razanghazzawi.org/2012/06/09/statement-read-at-front-lines-hr-defenders-award-event-full-text
Last night, there were many explosions heard in the city of Damascus, gun shots heard in my neighborhood, it has become the norm to fall asleep when hearing clashes in my neighborhood. We spent the night watching footage of a new massacre in Qubair, Hama, that followed Houla massacre couple of weeks ago.
I am writing this to tell you that it’s not easy to write a simple speech for such a kind and humbling event when all this is happening in your day. Then I figured, writing what prevents you from writing, paves the way for you to write.
Dear friends, colleagues and comrades,
Beautiful friend, Bassel Shehada, martyred by a mortar grenade in Homs on 28-5-2012. In this photo he was training activists in Homs on how to use the camera to cover regime violations of human rights. Bassel Left Fulbright scholarship to study film-making in the US and chose to be in Syria at this “historical moment,” as he once told me.
I find myself honored to be the person chosen for such appreciation, and to tell you the truth, I believe I don’t deserve such honor, I see the award as an award for Bassel Shehada, for Mazhar Tayyara, for Ghiath Matar, for Bassel Al-Sayed and for all the citizen journalists who died trying to tell the world what’s happening in Syria, when the traditional media have failed to do so. The traditional media that focuses on people’s misery not on their undefeated will to resist. Syrian citizen journalists and filmmakers tell the revolution in all its colors, through the good times and the bad times. And many have died doing so.
HamaEcho
FSA in Jabal al-Zawiya, #Idlib capture a T-72 tank and Shilka anti-aircraft weapon
RedRazan:
Bassel Shehada among his friends in Homs now ►https://t.co/a6LOrop5 #Syria I can’t believe I am not there with you.”
HamaEcho BMP armored vehicle defects in countryside
►http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCjypQTu8zg&feature=youtu.be
markito0171
After & #Australia now Belgium called for military intervention in #Syria
MahirZeynalov
Turkey asks Syria’s top diplomat in Ankara to leave the country in 72 hours, joining other countries to isolate Assad. #farcicalstrategies
fsa_hq_syria
The Free Syrian Army destroyed Al-Assad’s armored vehicles in Al-Atarib ...:
►http://youtu.be/WMD9gD4Fmwk
