Rami abu Maryam

One of those who lost their lives yesterday in the neighbourhood of Baba Amr in the central city of Homs, a city that has given  around 3,000 martyrs, is Rami Al-Sayed. Rami Al-Sayed has been one of the most active citizen-journalists in Baba Amr in Homs, where he has documented many of the human rights violations and military assaults on the Baba Amr neighbourhood in defiance to the complete media blackout imposed by the Syrian regime. His videos have been posted on Youtube under the name ‘Syrian pioneer’.

In the last message he wrote on Monday morning, he said that Baba Amr was and still is subjected to genocide and that the world and people everywhere should act to stop the mass massacre. Hours later, he lost his life after the car he was travelling in (along with a family of four, all of whom died) was hit by a shell whilst heading to a field hospital. He bled to death in the make-shift hospital in the distressed neighbourhood. The medical staff, all of whom knew him personally, could do nothing to save his life nor could they smuggle him outside the besieged neighbourhood for treatment.

His brother recalls "From the first days of the revolution he wanted a camera to record Assad's crimes." Another brother, Basil, died just months before him; he too recorded the atrocities in Homs. Now the family has lost two amazing brothers.

The following video shows Rami's daughter Maryam: