Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently

Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently (RSS or RBSS) is a citizen journalist group reporting Syrian war news and human rights abuses by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and other forces occupying the northern Syrian city of Raqqa. ISIL uses Raqqa as its de facto capital. RBSS reportedly works to counter the suggestion that citizens of Raqqa have welcomed the presence of ISIL. Some sources have described the group as an one of the few reliable sources of information from the city. It was founded by Abu Ibrahim a-Raqqawi.. RBSS has described itself as an "nonpartisan and independent" news page.

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. As a result, RBSS has been cited by international media outlets fairly extensively, and major news outlets have done feature stories on the group. Since no foreign or domestic journalists can operate in Raqqa, the efforts of RBSS provide unique insights. The work is dangerous, with ISIL militants searching for, torturing and in at least one case killing, RBSS members.

According to an interview with VICE News, there were originally 17 members, who started out opposing the Syrian government. When ISIL moved into 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."

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