Some Syrian soldiers record trophy video
9 september 2011 Plaats een reactie
It looks like their is another source of information popping up from Syria; the soldiers doing the dirty work are filming their actions. These video’s are becoming a new kind of bounty. In Lybia they stole someones smartphone? as a trophy, here they show off their deeds online. I wonder if these folks understand what the potential spread of these video’s is. What do they want to share with us, the viewer? Is it really a trophy, like the people in Lybia taking dead fighters phones? Is it a ‘ look mom, i can shoot my gun and beat prisoners’ kind of video, is it something to share amongst friends, is it ment for the family archive? These intentions are important if we want to understand the story the soldiers are sharing. Maybe they dont know themselves and they just do it because they can.
I like big buts though: in Syria’s almost lighttight censorshiprule you have to be carefull in jumping to conclusions about leaking videos that where not ment to be online. Maybe they áre ment to be online and that mr.Assad is taking the online battle for the framing of the Syrian showdown to the next level, not only beating the protesters on facebook (bit of an old link, still actual), but also increasingly countering their shaky video’s on youtube.
Syria knows its social media, so be carefull when ananlysing these vid’s.