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a group of over a thousand civilians fleeing from the civil war in syria have taken the time to pull off one of the best mannequin challenges we<u+2019>ve ever seen, in a 4-minute video lighting the internet on fire right now! 




the mannequin challenge, the latest craze sweeping through social media platforms at the minute, involves groups of people posing stock-still as a camera roves around them, with everyone from the portuguese football team to michelle obama to a group of lads at a house party in stillorgan taking part. 




all those videos pale in comparison, however, to the epic one-take shot filmed in the war-torn region of aleppo in which 976 men, women, children and babies are shown staying perfectly still, with poses ranging from <u+201c>half-buried underneath a collapsed hospital<u+201d> to <u+201c>clutching throat as the lungs fill with chlorine gas<u+201d>. 




<u+201c>with the mannequin challenge, you<u+2019>ll always see one person blink or sway, but not in this one,<u+201d> posted mark lennings, a 26-year-old internet user who shared the video on his facebook page. 




<u+201c>you<u+2019>d nearly swear they were actually mannequins. but that can<u+2019>t be the case, because if this kind of thing was really happening to these people, we<u+2019>d be talking about it more than we<u+2019>re talking about a viral game that serves only to fill our timelines with nonsense so we don<u+2019>t have to cope with the realities of this world. in fact, it<u+2019>s the best viral video to come out of the country since the ice-bucket challenge they filmed in the mediterranean last year<u+201d>. 




it is really up there with the best we<u+2019>ve seen, to view the epic video, click here.
these syrian refugees just nailed the mannequin challenge!
gerry mcbride