How much truth is spoken in those headlining stories and how many words have been used to amplify or dramatize a story? Can we peel through the facade and peak inside the room to see what's really going on in there? I guess any opinions can be subjective. History is subjective. Only the winners would survive to write the story.
Here's a video I saw on facebook filmed by a girl escaping from Syria. Comments are extremely controversial, some accused this to be fake. However, it corresponds to the images taken by Russian documentary photographer Sergey Ponomarev at the refugee camp, at the war zone, at the border of Greece, shown at Imperial War Museum as part of the Syria: A Conflict Explored exhibition.
Homs, Syria, 14 June 2014
© Sergey Ponomarev for the New York Times
Homeless children play in the ruins of Homs after Opposition forces left the area. During the siege, children were left to fend for themselves when their parents went missing or were caught on the wrong side of newly established checkpoints.
Damascus, Syria, 24 August 2013
© Sergey Ponomarev
A cyclist watches a fire caused by the explosion of a mortar shell during fighting between Government and Opposition forces near the Old City of Damascus.
It shook me. The messages I gathered through those visual presentations. It gave me a silent warning of how little I know about this situation. Those people are just like us, me you our family and our friends. But they are suffering because they were born in the wrong place.
Below are some images taken during my visit to the Imperial War Museum.
A man looking out from his window for a seemingly peaceful moment. The front line with open fire was only a block away.
A man returned to his home with his wife to collect their belongings and anything that hasn't been destroyed by the bomb.
In Homs, a new shopping mall was built just before the city fell into violence and conflict. The mall never had the chance to open its business.
Syria's third biggest city, Homs.