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May 29, 2012

Syrian Filmmaker Who Appeared on Democracy Now! Killed in Homs 
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In news from Syria, reports have emerged that the young Syrian filmmaker
Bassel Shehadeh was killed on Monday in the city of Homs. Bassel
appeared on Democracy Now! in December. At the time, he asked to only be
identified by his first name for security reasons. He described the
fighting in Homs.

Bassel Shehadeh: "The violence in the city of Homs is like — what
I saw the last week I was there ... like, it’s threatening to turn
into like almost a civil war. A heavy crackdown on the city, punishing
the rising area and killing the civilians, is forcing the locals to form
like an armed resistance to the regime’s forces. And they are
supported by army deserters. So the fight is between the locals and the
security forces and the supporters of the regime. The rising areas are
besieged by the regime forces."

Democracy Now! staff first met Bassel Shehadeh at Syracuse University.
He was a Fulbright scholar there studying filmmaking. Again, Bassel
Shehadeh, the young Syrian filmmaker, went back to Syria, was killed in
Homs.

 

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