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Assad Takes Us On An Official Your Of His Syria: Photos Of Weirdness And State Control

by | 10th, August 2011

TO Syria, then, for a government organised tour. The Associated Press’s photographer was shown cheering crowd loyal to President Assad. The snappers were sent to the city of Hama – a centre for anti-Assad protest. It’s buildings are deserted. No-one is on the street. The government has cut off electricity and communications. A rights group said eight babies died because their incubators lost power. But we never did see the hospital. Instead we saw the bodies of soldiers in a government-run hospital in the central city of Hama.

What do the photos tell us? They tell us that what we can see is as meaningful as what we cannot…

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In this photo taken during a government-organised tour for the media on Wednesday Aug. 10, 2011 a Syrian security officer points to a burnt police station, in Hama city, Syria, which has seen some of the largest anti-government protests of the 5-month-old uprising. The streets of Hama were deserted on Wednesday and the city in central Syria that has come to symbolize defiance against the regime appeared to be under full government control after last week's brutal crackdown on protesters. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)



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