Part 2 of a two part PBS Frontline documentary called Syria's Second Front. You can watch the whole episode here but I'm only releasing the FLM related half. If watching the Most Shocking Second a Day Video got you interested in what's going on in Syria then consider this the extended sequel.
Five-year-old Sara dreams nearly every night that she is slowly surrounded by snipers who then open fire, shooting her again and again until she finally dies. Her older sister Farah, just 8 years old, can calmly tell the difference between a rocket and a tank shell, based solely on the sound it makes when fired close to her home. The sisters live in a rebel-controlled part of the ancient Syrian city that is under near-constant siege from dictator Bashar al-Assad’s regime. More than 10,000 children have died in Syria’s bloody civil war, which is stretching into its third year, and another million have been driven from the country as refugees.
The children live in a once middle-class suburb that now is bombed out and barren, filled with piles of shrapnel and abandoned homes. Their father, Abu Ali, commands a regiment of 300 rebel fighters who are working to topple the Assad regime. The family lives just two blocks away from the regime-controlled part of the city, and are thus at the front lines of the fight. The children’s mother, Hala, said she at first gave her children cough syrup so they would sleep through the constant shelling. Then she told them the bombs were fireworks. Finally, she just told them the truth. Now, her four children — Sara, Farah, 13-year-old Helen, and 14-year-old Mohammed — are used to beating a hasty retreat inside their apartment when the shelling sounds get louder or their father tells them to. They even help their father make bombs.
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