The startling photos ISIS doesn't want you to see: Glorified capital city suffers with poverty

Ever since ISIS took over and declared Raqqa as their capital, they've boosted themselves on offering outsiders a spectacular life. Their prided propaganda has been tarnished with a circulating group of photos published by an anti-ISIS campaign group. Taken by "Raqqa is Being Silently Slaughtered," photos were tweeted by a member showing the current state of the people in the conquered territory. The photos display a situation far from the image of prosperity the jihadists' PR team has published.

span style="line-height: 15.8599996566772px;">MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - "Lines waiting for some food," wrote the opposing campaign group's founder, Abu Ibrahim Raqqawi with the photos tweeted. "Yes this is the #ISIS State. Hunger, poverty and homelessness."

He explained that people suffer without electricity most of the time, as the power in the city is cut off for about 21 hours a day.




"Raqqa is Being Silently Slaughtered" risks their lives everyday to document what happens in the city as to decry from what ISIS is priding.

ISIS has been using social media for its extensive campaign and even selling branded merchandise to keep in contact with their supporters from the West, as coordinated by their AlHayat Media Centre. However, the photos that show Syrians falling in long lines in order to have some food began circulating just few days after their brutality took over.

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It has been reported that they are using more sickening sentences against whomever disobeys their rules, even as to being accused of homosexuality.

"ISIS tightens penalties and uses the principle of intimidation with dealing with public, which had led to the migration and escape of many people," said one of the residents. "Freedom of expression has been a crime." He said that there are already dozens of residents who have fled the city after the ISIS' enforcement of their laws.

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