This piece is the last part (for now) of what you can describe as a trilogy about the 'Arab spring'. The other parts presented the struggle and the spirit behind the revolution, but this part is the most terrifying and alarming. Itai Anghel and Amir Tibon, two of 'UVDA' journalists, went to Syria –Jordan border to meet the people who escaped Dara'a, the city that sparked Syria after the arrests of children for painting anti-government graffiti.

The Syrian refugees, hiding their faces from the camera but discover with courageous heart the torturing and suffer they have been through by the repressive regime. This piece was filmed few weeks after the murder of two foreign journalists in Homs. One of them, Remi Ochlik, was a friend and a colleague of Itai Anghel. They met in Tahrir ' square worked and stayed as a group, got close as only people that have been through hell and back can be. With his death, a lot of dilemmas came to our minds but we got the answer only in the field from one of the refugees: "the regime is not afraid of people with weapons, they are afraid of people with camera." And this is our mission.

 

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