Black Thursday in Aleppo
The interview also included some soldiers who had defected from the regime in various parts of the country, as the revolution entered its second year then. Al Jazeera’s management allowed me to return to the field a year later. This time, I was deployed to the eastern part of Aleppo. It was still being bombarded, but considered relatively calm compared to the past year’s horrors.
During this spell, I had the opportunity to meet people from all walks of life. Al Jazeera told the world the stories of unarmed people reeling under the brunt of ruthless shelling by its own regime. We, as journalists, are not only witnesses to these events, we are also part of them. We told the untold stories. We were the voice of the voiceless. We recorded history for posterity.
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