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The SJAC Weekly Update- September 3, 2013
Ghouta Attack Underlines Value of
Documentation
In addition to exposing and
recording the reality of a
horrifying chemical weapons
attack, the photos, videos,
and written reports from
Ghouta also brought
increased attention to the
power of documentation itself. The concentration of documentation
from Syrian citizens, journalists and groups and not by foreign
reporters, western NGOs, or even official organizations produced
huge amounts of generally reliable information. This information not
only educated the world about the events in real-time, but also
forms a significant historical record that could be valuable to
Syrians in transitional justice efforts by laying the foundation for
prosecuting officials, informing truth-seeking efforts, and serving as
a credible basis for memorialization processes.
Search Ghouta on Youtube and the results yield about 17,000 hits
from this month alone. Many of these videos have been integrated
into televised and online media coverage of the chemical attack
around the world. It is an exemplary case underlining the potential
and critical impact that documentation can have on increasing the
global knowledge of such events. It is not, however, surprising.
Internationally-recognized and well-established news organizations
are increasingly drawing on locally-produced publicly-available
citizen journalism for photos and videos of events on the ground in
hazardous places such as Syria. These sources of information can
ensure the media can access locations too dangerous for their
staff. The chemical weapons attack in Ghouta, in an area
inaccessible at the time to international media, underlined just how
necessary such local documentation can be under these
circumstances. (Image: still from Kifr Batna City Youtube video.)
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