{"id":672,"date":"2012-06-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/?p=672","title":{"rendered":"The Story of a videographer from Homs; Ahmad Hamada, martyr of media and saving people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmad Hamada was born in Hama and lived in  Homs, so he has the honor of these two Orontes river cities. He has learned  pride from Hama and resistance from Homs. He is 27 years old. At the beginning  of the revolution, he left his work in the technical services department and  worked as a videographer to document war crimes and human rights abuses  commissions by the Syrian regime.<\/p>\n<p>The least that can be said about Ahmad is that  he was courageous, cultured and possessed high moral excellence where has  treaded the path of death with no fear. He was the Unknown Soldier who worked behind  the scenes in silence documenting by his camera massacres perpetrated by the  Syrian regime against the unarmed Syrian people. He has documented at least 500  videos on the shelling of Baba Amr, the old neighborhoods of Homs and the  massacres perpetrated in the neighborhoods of al-Khaldya and al-Shammas in Homs  city.<\/p>\n<p>He was the eye that documented bloodshed,  killing and suffering. He risked his life to document turning points in the  history of the Syrian revolution hoping that this might revive the pity and  conscience of humanity in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian regime security forces killed Ahmad  Hamada yesterday, Saturday, 06-06-2012 while he was covering the fierce  shelling targeting the old neighborhoods of Homs. Death squads killed his  friend who has been trained by Abdul Hadi al-Qumaqli, so he rallied to help his  friend. While he was aiding his friend, a security forces\u2019 sniper killed him.<\/p>\n<p>This photograph has been taken by Ahmad himself<span dir=\"rtl\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Al-Khaldya: the complete collapse of 12-floor  building on 06-06-2012<br \/>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Ik4SHL1kioE\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/Ik4SHL1kioE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ik4SHL1kioE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This video has been recorded in Baba Amr by  Ahmad himself<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3hd-0HSPmiE\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3hd-0HSPmiE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3hd-0HSPmiE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This video documents the body of the victim  Ahmad Hamada<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/4z6Li4Sm7DQ\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/4z6Li4Sm7DQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4z6Li4Sm7DQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad Hamada\u2019s photo<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=411043958946184&amp;set=a.170186573031925.48606.165780076805908&amp;type=1\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=411043958946184&amp;set=a.170186573031925.48606.165780076805908&amp;type=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><u>Syrian Network for Human Rights &#8211; London &amp; <br \/>\nDamascus Center for Human Rights Studies &#8211; Syria<\/u><\/p>\n<p>SNHR:<\/p>\n<p>Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syrianhr.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.syrianhr.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:press@syrianhr.org\">press@syrianhr.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>DCHRS:<\/p>\n<p>Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/english\/news.php\">www.dchrs.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:info@dchrs.org\">info@dchrs.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmad Hamada was born in Hama and lived in  Homs, so he has the honor of these two Orontes river cities. He has learned  pride from Hama and resistance from Homs. He is 27 years old. At the beginning  of the revolution, he left his work in the technical services department and  worked as a videographer to document war crimes and human rights abuses  commissions by the Syrian regime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}