15-year-old documents Ghouta massacre with selfie videos
CNNCNN — Like most teenagers, 15-year-old Muhammad Najem spends a lot of time posting selfie videos on social media. “The children of Ghouta die every day by the bombing of the Assad regime and Russia,” Najem says in one of the dozens of videos he has posted on Twitter and YouTube. In two days this week, intense airstrikes and shelling by Russian-backed Syrian government forces killed more than 250 people in Eastern Ghouta, including 58 children, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. You watch it daily without any reaction from you,” Najem says in one video, wearing a Syrian flag draped around his neck like a scarf. “We know that you get bored from our blood pictures,” Najem says in a recent video, directly into the camera, directly to his viewers.
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