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The New Hama Rules: Cellphone Cameras Exposing Assad's Brutality

(Wall Street Journal) Editorial - In 1982 the Syrian regime of Hafez Assad murdered at least 10,000 of its own people in the city of Hama, and the rest of the world shrugged. Yet since the Syrian uprising began in mid-March there has been a constant stream of images and video clips from nearly every city in Syria, vividly depicting the scope, intensity and frequency of protests - as well as the brutality of the regime's crackdown. The cellphone cameras and other democratized forms of electronic media have cut through the regime's information embargoes and propaganda. Nobody believes Bashar. Nobody is allowing him to change the subject by provoking confrontations with Israel, and for a change nobody is forgetting the kind of regime he runs.

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