Opinion: Travel bloggers visiting Syria are normalizing the Assad regime

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. Equipped with a backpack, a handheld video camera and a YouTube channel packed with solicitations for donations, the travel blogger’s approach and motivation are vastly different than the Syrian government’s – but the message, and the result, are the same.The average travel blogger’s Syria trip looks something like this: fly into Damascus and head straight for the old city.

But the war is not ancient history. It is something that still occurs today, and whose consequences are being felt daily by millions of Syrians. A few dozen kilometres west of the Aleppo citadel popular with travel bloggers, an indiscriminate bombardment campaign continues on more than three million civilians in Idlib province.

 

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