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ONE OF THE HERO’S OF BABA AMR (HOMS) IS DEAD. RAMI AL SAYYED - RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DAILY LIVE STREAMING BROADCASTS FROM HOMS TO THE WORLD WAS KILLED TODAY. Homs (Baba Amr) Feb 21, 2012 - Rami Al Sayyed was the journalist for Baba Amr. He risked his life each day to document the brutal crimes of Assad’s evil army and their massacre of his people.

He risked everything each day as he linked Baba Amr to the world via his live-streaming camera. His video’s would be broadcast each day to Al Jazeera Live, CNN, BBC … just to name a few. He was the only glimmer of hope the people of this besieged city had of letting the world see and hear what was happening to them - they had already given up on any soul helping them, so at least they held solace in the fact that when they die, people would watch it to give them strength to carry on with the revolution.

He was murdered yesterday not long after he spent hours and hours making sure yesterday’s attack - the longest and most brutal to-date was filmed. At times the rockets fell so close they blew the camera to the ground - the “whoosh” of the rockets whizzed by so near that you felt goosebumps just before the sickening sound of them crashing into someones home - killing another life.

He was traveling in a car with four other people when they were struck by one of the hundreds of rockets that rained down on the most impoverished district of Homs City. He bled for three hours as doctors tried to save him. Yet they did not have the necessary equipment or medicines to treat him - Dr. Mohammed Al Mohammed tried his best, but there were too many shrapnel wounds. The four other people riding in the car with him were also killed.

In the video we can see Rami, resting in peace as his soul goes to heaven. Dr. Mohammed speaks to us, on the brink of sanity, exhaustion and despair; of how important Rami was to the people of Baba Amr. From all the death and destruction that Dr. Mohammed has witnessed during this revolution - i have yet to see him cry like this…

RIP Rami “Abu Maryam” Al Sayyed aka Syrian Pioneer. You will be missed but never forgotten.

This is Rami filming his baby girl

@AmalHanano interviewed him and wrote about him in her article on Jadaliyya.com titled “The Insha’at Exodus”

This is a devastating loss. Al Sayyed’s broadcasts have played a crucial role in effectively bypassing the crackdown on the press and getting information out to foreign agencies. He will most certainly be missed. Just tragic.

Oh my god. I just. 

RIP.