pantslessprogressive:

“If you’ve not been to war, you might think that death is more dramatic than it often is. In Syria, people die every day… shot in their homes, shot in the street, killed in detention. People die and the world does not stop. Some may mourn, but the world keeps spinning. Basil Al-Sayid died as he lived, with a camera in his hand and like so many of his other videos, his too was posted on YouTube. That’s him in the body bag - family and friends mourning him. 

In a country where the truth is as ugly as these pictures and silence is enforced under penalty of death, the only answer - dangerous as it can obviously be - is showing the pictures and breaking the silence and trying to tell the truth. Basil Al-Sayid lived and died trying to do that.” - Anderson Cooper, on the death of 24-year-old Al-Sayid, who was killed while filming the ongoing violence in Syria.