#SummerInSyria social media campaign fails to take off
Syrian news agency asks people to share summer images online, but attracts photos of country’s ongoing conflict.
Published On 23 Jun 2015
A new social media campaign by the English-language division of Syria’s state news agency, asking people to share their summer experiences in the war-torn country, has failed to gain traction.
On Monday, SANA English asked its 15,000-plus Twitter followers to use the #SummerInSyria hashtag, saying: “Now that #summer is upon us, snap us your moments of summer in #Syria using the hashtag #SummerInSyria.”
Keep reading
list of 4 itemsNPR editor resigns after accusing US outlet of liberal bias
Lawmakers brawl as Georgian Parliament considers ‘foreign agent’ bill
Journalist loses foot after being badly wounded in Israeli attack in Gaza
Now that #summer is upon us, snap us your moments of summer in #Syria using the hashtag #SummerInSyria pic.twitter.com/sutvUuZUoj
— SANA English (@SANA_English) June 22, 2015
Only a small handful of social media users responded to the news agency’s request, however, and those who did tweeted pictures of the ongoing conflict in the country.
https://twitter.com/OfficialJargon/status/612949259856429056
Now its #SummerInSyria your master #Assad welcomed it couple of days in Talbisa #Homs with #BarrelBombs@SANA_English pic.twitter.com/mohmBmxpSv
— Fadi Al-Qadi (@fqadi) June 22, 2015
Syria has been in turmoil after peaceful protests in 2011 against the four-decade rule by Bashar al-Assad’s family turned violent.
More than 210,000 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in the four-year-old civil war, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The conflict has also displaced half the country’s 22 million population.
Rights groups have accused Damascus of committing numerous abuses, including crimes against humanity.
Source: Al Jazeera