Another Prominent Citizen Journalist And Blogger Killed In Syria

An image from a video of Fidaa al-Baali from last year. On Friday he died from a shrapnel wound sustained weeks earlier.

Activist Who Documented Syrian War’s Toll Became Its Victim -- New York Times

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Even as the Syrian war took bigger and bigger bites out of his life, Fidaa al-Baali never stopped trying to document the conflict — not when his brother, a rebel fighter, died in battle; not when security officials, trying to pressure him, arrested his father; not even when the rebel battalion he was embedded with unleashed a mortar attack that killed his fiancée.

On Friday, Mr. Baali, a citizen journalist and an antigovernment activist known to many Syrians by the nom de guerre Mohammed Moaz, died of shrapnel wounds sustained weeks earlier as government forces shelled his neighborhood, Qaboun, on the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus. Mr. Baali had remained in the working-class jumble of concrete houses during months of heavy bombardment, rushing with his video camera to the scene of attacks.

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My Comment: I have lost count on how many citizen journalists and bloggers have been killed in Syria in the past two years. While there is always someone there to replace the ones who are lost .... the carnage that is happening in Syria today is making this "duty" increasingly  impossible to perform.