Showing posts with label videos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label videos. Show all posts

Monday, 27 August 2012

Helicopter Downed In Damascus - Collected Videos And Images

As reported by the BBC and other news organisations the Free Syrian Army claim to have shot down a helicopter in the Damascus district of Al Qabun that had been firing on the district of Jobar

A number of people have sent me additional images and videos from the incident, so thanks to @DamascusTribune, @septimius_sever, and @troublejee for the following images.

@HebahAlhomsi posted two images showing the helicopter as it was crashing, and debris from the helicopter


She also posted this very graphic image of the remains of one of the pilot.

This video shows helicopter engulfed in flames just before it crashes

Another angle of the helicopter dropping out of the sky

And another


And another showing it crashing among buildings


This video shows the wreckage of the helicopter


Thanks to @troublejee for the above videos, as well as this photograph which he says activist claim to be the man who shot down the helicopter, using a ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft gun, also mentioned by @HebahAlhomsi

Update August 27th Here's another video via @zilal1

The Coordinating free Qaboun Youtube channel is posting multiple videos from the incident in addition to the ones already posted above.

GRAPHIC - The hand of one of the pilots of the helicopter

Two shots of the burning helicopter


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Wednesday, 4 April 2012

Syrian Activists - Laughing In The Face of Danger

Something that's really stood out to me when looking at the Libyan and Syrian conflicts is the number of satirical  videos being produced by Syrian activists. It seems while the Libyans produced a large amount of satirical graffiti the Syrians have used video as their medium of choice.

Some videos are parodies of the large number of defection and battalion formation videos posted on Youtube by opposition activists. In the following videos school children declare their defection from their schools:



Even when filming a deadly serious defection video it seems it's easy to forget that you're meant to be fighting for the Free Syrian Army now, not the Assad regime, much to the amusement of your fellow defectors:

Recent news that Bashar al-Assad's wife uses the pet name "Duck" in their private emails led to this defection video parody:


Translated by az jan jananam of the Something Awful forums:
In the name of God the Merciful the Munificent. I am Batta ibn Battuta and I announce my defection from the Assadi duck gangs and this is my identity (holds up feather) and my admission into the Free Duck Brigades, as I and a group of ducks announce the formation of the Quack-Quack Battalion. We call upon all ducks to defect from the Duck Regime. Long live Syria and down with Bashar al-Batta (the duck). Victory to all our ducks.
Quackbir! (quack quack) 
 This was soon followed by "the biggest march supporting President Assad":


Reports of weapons being smuggled into Syria by the US prompted activists to make this fake news report titled "Top-Secret, Conclusive Evidence that the Free Syrian Army is being armed by America with Israeli weapons" lampooning such reports, with the reporter describing donkeys as 4x4 and shovels as snipers rifles:


Syria's recent vote on the new constitution proposed to Assad's regime also produce a large number of parody videos, filmed in various locations.  These first videos shows the voting in Homs



Voting in Hama

Voting in Aleppo

Elsewhere activists picked up on this Pro-Assad voter accidently letting slip they are voting on behalf of absent family members, much to the embarasment of the interviewer (English Subs)


Outside of Syria this video, Sh*t Assad Supporters Say, has been produced recently:


This final video shows the absurdity of the situation the people of Syria find themselves in, with Martians saying they are supporting the Syrian opposition as no-one on Earth will:


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