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| The group has published first hand accounts, videos and photos of life and war crimes in Raqqa through its Facebook page and website, other social media, and via interviews and furnishing material to media organizations worldwide.<ref>http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2014/05/syria-raqqa-slaughtered-silently/</ref><ref>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/30/raqqa-isis-capital-crucifixions-civilians-suffer-jihadis-red-bull</ref><ref>http://www.ibtimes.com/raqqa-civilians-hit-new-assad-airstrikes-tell-stories-isis-executions-coalition-1729295</ref><ref>http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/11/raqqa-syria-islamic-state-activists-threatened.html</ref> An RSS member was killed. <ref name=RSSTele>{{cite web|last1=Ruth Sherlock|title=Inside an Isil town|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/11052984/Inside-an-Isil-town-Raqqa-is-being-slaughtered-silently.html|website=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/|accessdate=28 December 2014}}</ref> | The group has published first hand accounts, videos and photos of life and war crimes in Raqqa through its Facebook page and website, other social media, and via interviews and furnishing material to media organizations worldwide.<ref>http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2014/05/syria-raqqa-slaughtered-silently/</ref><ref>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/30/raqqa-isis-capital-crucifixions-civilians-suffer-jihadis-red-bull</ref><ref>http://www.ibtimes.com/raqqa-civilians-hit-new-assad-airstrikes-tell-stories-isis-executions-coalition-1729295</ref><ref>http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/11/raqqa-syria-islamic-state-activists-threatened.html</ref> An RSS member was killed. <ref name=RSSTele>{{cite web|last1=Ruth Sherlock|title=Inside an Isil town|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/11052984/Inside-an-Isil-town-Raqqa-is-being-slaughtered-silently.html|website=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/|accessdate=28 December 2014}}</ref> | ||
| According to an interview with Vice News, there were originally 17 members, who started out opposing the Syrian Government. When ISIL moved in to the city in April 2014 the group started the posting information about ISIL. One member who had fled Raqqa said "After we launched the campaign and posted a lot of crucifixions and executions on the news and Facebook and Twitter, they made three Friday sermons about us, saying we are infidels and we're against Allah and " we'll catch them and we'll execute them." "We are 12 inside the city and four outside. Before the 12 inside the city were posting on Twitter and posting on Facebook, and talking to journalists, but it's very dangerous. So we decided to use a "secret room," and the people in the city post all the photos, the news, and everything, and the four that are out, we are posting it on the internet, Twitter, and Facebook, and talking to journalists. We hide behind fake names and we don't trust anyone, so we don't get captured."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Speri|first1=Alice|title=https://news.vice.com/article/raqqa-is-being-slaughtered-silently-and-these-guys-are-risking-their-lives-to-document-it|url=https://news.vice.com/article/raqqa-is-being-slaughtered-silently-and-these-guys-are-risking-their-lives-to-document-it|website=Vice News|accessdate=28 December 2014|date=Sept 25, 2014}}</ref> | |||
| ==References== | ==References== | ||
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Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently (RSS) is a citizen journalist effort exposing human rights abuses by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (also known as ISIL or DAESH) forces occupying the northern Syrian city of Raqqa. ISIL uses Raqqa as its de facto capital. RSS works to counter the suggestion that citizens of Raqqa have welcomed the presence of ISIL/DAESH.
The group has published first hand accounts, videos and photos of life and war crimes in Raqqa through its Facebook page and website, other social media, and via interviews and furnishing material to media organizations worldwide. An RSS member was killed.
References
- Johnston, Chris. "Islamic State suspected of cyber-attack on Raqqa opponents". http://www.theguardian.com. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
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- http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/30/raqqa-isis-capital-crucifixions-civilians-suffer-jihadis-red-bull
- http://www.ibtimes.com/raqqa-civilians-hit-new-assad-airstrikes-tell-stories-isis-executions-coalition-1729295
- http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/11/raqqa-syria-islamic-state-activists-threatened.html
- Ruth Sherlock. "Inside an Isil town". http://www.telegraph.co.uk/. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
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