A once beautiful city is now in ruins, as is so much of Syria. If this conflict ever ends, it will take years and tons of money to bring these cities back.
Justin Salhani
World Reporter at ThinkProgress focusing on human rights — email [email protected]
Aug 175 min read
Virtual Reality In Syria Shows The Scale Of Destruction In Aleppo
You run inside a nearby concrete building, as the regime targets an area it bombed just minutes earlier.
Syrians help an injured man, center, after airstrikes hit Aleppo, Syria, July 31, 2016. CREDIT: ALEPPO MEDIA CENTER/AP
BEIRUT, LEBANON — A man in paramedic clothing just to my left drills into the rubble of a building destroyed by an airstrike in Syria’s biggest city of Aleppo. On my right, another man uses a mallet to break the thick, collapsed concrete walls. These aren’t the best tools to use to look for survivors, but these are the best tools available in a city that has been repeatedly bombed by the Russian Air Force in collaboration with the Syrian government.
Aleppo is 370 kilometers (230 miles) from Beirut, but a team of journalists, producers, and NGOs have worked tirelessly to produce two videos that put you in the shoes of the Syrian Civil Defense — a group of volunteers widely referred to as the White Helmets who perform similar duties to the Red Cross — and a local journalist, working in extremely testing circumstances.
The project was produced by UNESCO in partnership with The Association for the Support of Free Media and the Syrian SMART News Agency. The French group Association for the Support of Free Media and the Samir Kassir Foundation, a Lebanese organization focusing on press freedom, brought this project to Beirut’s Riviera Hotel for a few days this week.
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Justin Salhani
World Reporter at ThinkProgress focusing on human rights — email [email protected]
Aug 175 min read
Virtual Reality In Syria Shows The Scale Of Destruction In Aleppo
You run inside a nearby concrete building, as the regime targets an area it bombed just minutes earlier.
Syrians help an injured man, center, after airstrikes hit Aleppo, Syria, July 31, 2016. CREDIT: ALEPPO MEDIA CENTER/AP
BEIRUT, LEBANON — A man in paramedic clothing just to my left drills into the rubble of a building destroyed by an airstrike in Syria’s biggest city of Aleppo. On my right, another man uses a mallet to break the thick, collapsed concrete walls. These aren’t the best tools to use to look for survivors, but these are the best tools available in a city that has been repeatedly bombed by the Russian Air Force in collaboration with the Syrian government.
Aleppo is 370 kilometers (230 miles) from Beirut, but a team of journalists, producers, and NGOs have worked tirelessly to produce two videos that put you in the shoes of the Syrian Civil Defense — a group of volunteers widely referred to as the White Helmets who perform similar duties to the Red Cross — and a local journalist, working in extremely testing circumstances.
The project was produced by UNESCO in partnership with The Association for the Support of Free Media and the Syrian SMART News Agency. The French group Association for the Support of Free Media and the Samir Kassir Foundation, a Lebanese organization focusing on press freedom, brought this project to Beirut’s Riviera Hotel for a few days this week.
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Virtual Reality In Syria Shows Full Scale Destruction Of Aleppo – ThinkProgress
