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Syria atrocities on YouTube
jumperjohn
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I just wanted to share thought and wondered what people’s feelings were about the countless videos on YouTube showing what accounts to murder.
YouTube is great. Most nights I search stuff, usually items what have been in the news that day, and click on linked videos. I usually end up looking at motorcycles, funny clips, sport and all that good stuff. Yesterday there was an article in the BBC about a woman who served as an SS officer based at a concentration camp. I have always had an uncomfortable interest in WW2 as it amazes me at how a modern country like Germany can kill millions of people because of belief, race, disability and so on, uncomfortable because my grandmother was in Austria during the Nazi occupation and some cousins joined Hitler Youth. She was badly affected for the rest of her life even though this was seen as a ‘friendly’ occupation some of her friends ‘disappeared’ and her husband was killed.
Anyway I digress. Whilst watching a film about liberated camps a link to Syria was highlighted, I couldn’t believe what I was witnessing. Men being beaten to death, long drawn out beatings and then shot, on screen whilst other men were laughing and joining in. I then saw another link where a lorry convoy was stopped by armed men, the drivers were asked to get out and answer questions about which tribe they belonged to, they were found to be in the wrong muslim group so again on screen the 3 men were asked to kneel and then they were shot.
I was watching almost in shock. How are these people committing these crimes ok with what they are doing, why do they think that beating a man and then killing him is ok? Weren’t we doing this as cavemen, how have we not evolved? Why are these uncensored videos on YouTube? I then thought about all sorts of scary stuff like what if that sort of thing happened in the UK, civil war or a Russian occupation etc. I know that is a warped idea but the cruelty of these men in the videos is out of the realms of my imagination. Were these men kicking the chap to death once normal working men, how did they turn into evil who think that what they are doing is acceptable.
Sorry, had to share as it’s quite affecting.
YouTube is great. Most nights I search stuff, usually items what have been in the news that day, and click on linked videos. I usually end up looking at motorcycles, funny clips, sport and all that good stuff. Yesterday there was an article in the BBC about a woman who served as an SS officer based at a concentration camp. I have always had an uncomfortable interest in WW2 as it amazes me at how a modern country like Germany can kill millions of people because of belief, race, disability and so on, uncomfortable because my grandmother was in Austria during the Nazi occupation and some cousins joined Hitler Youth. She was badly affected for the rest of her life even though this was seen as a ‘friendly’ occupation some of her friends ‘disappeared’ and her husband was killed.
Anyway I digress. Whilst watching a film about liberated camps a link to Syria was highlighted, I couldn’t believe what I was witnessing. Men being beaten to death, long drawn out beatings and then shot, on screen whilst other men were laughing and joining in. I then saw another link where a lorry convoy was stopped by armed men, the drivers were asked to get out and answer questions about which tribe they belonged to, they were found to be in the wrong muslim group so again on screen the 3 men were asked to kneel and then they were shot.
I was watching almost in shock. How are these people committing these crimes ok with what they are doing, why do they think that beating a man and then killing him is ok? Weren’t we doing this as cavemen, how have we not evolved? Why are these uncensored videos on YouTube? I then thought about all sorts of scary stuff like what if that sort of thing happened in the UK, civil war or a Russian occupation etc. I know that is a warped idea but the cruelty of these men in the videos is out of the realms of my imagination. Were these men kicking the chap to death once normal working men, how did they turn into evil who think that what they are doing is acceptable.
Sorry, had to share as it’s quite affecting.
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I find these sorts of thinsg so difficult to watch...but I don't think they should be censored. In some respoects, grasping the full horror of what goes on is fundamental to wanting to change it. I don't think we should 'dilute' the gravity of it by censoring or pixellating.0
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