that gives hope, a moment of optimism, a baby rescued from deep in the rubble after a massive bombing. in march of 2011, a group of young boys spray painted anti-government great feety on a wall. they were arrested and disappeared for two weeks. when they returned home, their families found that their bodies were scarred from torture, allegedly at the hands of regime forces. and that really provided the spark that ignited a series of protests not just in the city they were from, but across the entire country. about a year later, you had the hula massacre which was one of the most horrific incidents in the syrian civil war when roughly 100 people were killed by government soldiers, and half of them were believed to be children. and those images served as a real rallying cry not just