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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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