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'Hero boy' video promoted by Syria's Shaam Network a 'sham'
(MENAFN- Arab News) The video footage of a boy rescuing his little sister under sniper fire in Syria was scripted but deliberately misrepresented on YouTube to generate a discussion about children in conflict zones a BBC report on Saturday said.
It was filmed by Norwegian filmmakers in Malta just recently with the intention of being presented as real the BBC report said quoting Oslo-based film director Lars Klevberg.
In the video which was also posted as a link in Arab News Arab voices could be heard cheering on the boy as he fakes being hit by sniper fire rises and successfully pulls to safety the girl who is hiding behind a car.
Klevberg told BBC that the boy and girl are professional actors from Malta while the voices in the background are of Syrian refugees.
He said his crew first posted the video clip on YouTube but it did not get that much reaction. After reposting it with the word 'hero' in the new headline Shaam Network a channel that features material from the Middle East picked it up and posted it on YouTube attracting international attention. The video had been watched on YouTube more than five million times.
Arab News also posted the link from Shaam News Network with the caveat that the video cannot be independently confirmed and the scene of the supposed incident is not mentioned.
Klevberg told BBC that they were happy their work of fiction 'created a debate" about children caught in war.
And while the video clip was a work of fiction a recent report by the London-based Oxford Research group says that of more than 11000 children who have died in Syria's civil war since 2011 hundreds were targeted by snipers.
It was filmed by Norwegian filmmakers in Malta just recently with the intention of being presented as real the BBC report said quoting Oslo-based film director Lars Klevberg.
In the video which was also posted as a link in Arab News Arab voices could be heard cheering on the boy as he fakes being hit by sniper fire rises and successfully pulls to safety the girl who is hiding behind a car.
Klevberg told BBC that the boy and girl are professional actors from Malta while the voices in the background are of Syrian refugees.
He said his crew first posted the video clip on YouTube but it did not get that much reaction. After reposting it with the word 'hero' in the new headline Shaam Network a channel that features material from the Middle East picked it up and posted it on YouTube attracting international attention. The video had been watched on YouTube more than five million times.
Arab News also posted the link from Shaam News Network with the caveat that the video cannot be independently confirmed and the scene of the supposed incident is not mentioned.
Klevberg told BBC that they were happy their work of fiction 'created a debate" about children caught in war.
And while the video clip was a work of fiction a recent report by the London-based Oxford Research group says that of more than 11000 children who have died in Syria's civil war since 2011 hundreds were targeted by snipers.
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