"In a video published on October 28, two men are filmed skinning, cooking and eating a cat, allegedly because they face dire food shortages in their neighbourhood of the Damascus suburbs. While it is not impossible that Syrian civilians may have resorted to this where the fighting is fiercest and life the hardest, this video appears to have been carefully staged to create maximum impact. The video was first posted on the YouTube channel of a group calling itself the "South Damascus Media Bureau", which has published several dozen other videos, mostly of rebels doing battle."