This number is hard to process and understand, and it makes me sad and angry it is not considered news anymore in the mainstream media. So far over 200,000 people were killed and many more have been injured in the Syrian civil war since 2011. Those who didn't die left to find a safer place. As can be seen in the video, it is safe to say none of these people still live there. Darayya is a suburb of Damascus, and about 80,000 people used to live there. This video is a combo of few different GoPros mounted on few different Syrian tanks fighting the Syrian rebels in the city of Darayya. This is the first time I see a GoPro mounted on a tank on a live war zone, and it is shocking / amazing / interesting / sad / scary / terrifying / eyeopening / insane. Some show things that were never possible to shoot and some are just cool. Each one of the uses made for awesome and unique videos that are fun to watch. In the past few years I've seen GoPros mounted on Dolphins, on B.A.S.E Jumpers, on Snowboarders and on birds. We should all care about the destroyed lives of so many people, even if we don't know them personally. We should all be aware of the situation in Syria. It is the most interesting video I've seen in a long time. It shows the devastation, the risk and all the bad things we know (and sometimes ignore) about war. Not only does it give a very unique view of the war, it is showing us what it really is to be in a war zone. This is why I think it is very important to watch this video. You quickly read the title of a story about it on CNN, and then switch tabs to check what's new on Twitter. You hear it on the news maybe, and then go ahead to watch Jimmy Fallon. We all multitask, but still have less and less time to read about major life-changing events from around the world. These days it is very easy to ignore bad news (or any news) from around the world unless it's related to you directly - You have to focus on your work, on your family, on your friend's new baby photos on Facebook or on funny cat gifs you randomly see on Tumblr.
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