Topic: TIL the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights consists of one guy in a two bedroom house in Coventry.
Metæ started this discussion 11 years ago #47,646
Amazing. I'd been hearing about the group on CNN, NPR, NYT, and the BBC for years now and I had assumed, based on the deference and credibility it was given that it was a large NGO like Amnesty. But it's one guy, Rami Abdulrahman, who runs a clothes shop in Coventry and calls people in Syria to check up on human rights there.
Of course this doesn't mean Rami's a fraud or the SOHR isn't for real, but it does seem kinda odd that a guy with a clothing shop wields such influence on Syria reporting.
Of course this doesn't mean Rami's a fraud or the SOHR isn't for real, but it does seem kinda odd that a guy with a clothing shop wields such influence on Syria reporting.
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 18 minutes later[^] [v] #624,264
Betting he is not a fraud. Lives in an ok hood in UK. Owns two dress shops. All it takes is just one guy to make a difference.
Not a single name has been put up to run Syria, when Bashar al-Assad, moves to Russia to become Snowden's roomate.
Let me be the first to nominate Rami Abdulrahman.