A Crowdsourced Tribute to Syria's Victims

Once conflict reporting became a crowdsourced affair, perhaps it was inevitable that tributes to those conflicts' victims would be managed by the masses as well.

The folks over at the Voice of America's Middle East Voices site recently launched a Faces of the Fallen page where people inside Syria can submit photos of friends and family members killed in the clashes between President Basher Assad's government and Arab Spring protesters.

The site shares a name with the Washington Post's tribute to U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan but lacks that site's slickness and its trove of data about deaths per year, per service, per age range and per cause of death.

The images of the Syrian conflict's victims are just as striking though -- perhaps more so because they are dressed all in civilian clothes and more easily distinguishable from each other than the Post's row upon row of uniformed soldiers.

To date, the site has about 100 submitted photos, according to an information page.