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| World is failing Homs victims |
| 2012-02-26 |
| BEIRUT: The Syrian military took its bombardment of the rebel-held Baba Amro district of Homs into a fourth week on Saturday as the Red Cross tried to evacuate more distressed civilians from the city. At least 18 people were killed in Homs and elsewhere in Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Deploring the outcome of an international “Friends of Syria” conference, opposition activists said the world had abandoned them to be killed by forces loyal to President Bashar Assad. “They (world leaders) are still giving opportunities to this man who is killing us and has already killed thousands of people,” said Nadir Husseini, an activist in Baba Amro. The International Committee of the Red The ICRC denied this, saying the Syrian Red Activists in Homs described Friday’s Friends of Syria meeting in Tunisia as a failure that had brought them no relief. “I don’t really care about the Tunis conference. All I care about is getting help for my family in the besieged areas,” said Waleed Fares, contacted from Beirut. “The political calculations are not the same as the calculations for us revolutionaries.” A video uploaded by activists in Homs’ Khalidiya district showed crowds at a funeral, shouting “We swear to God we will not be silent about our martyrs.” In the background, clouds of smoke were rising from buildings that activists said had been hit by shell fire. Civilians are enduring desperate conditions in Baba Amro. “We have hundreds of wounded people crammed into houses,” the activist Husseini said. “People are dying from lack of blood because we just don’t have the capability of treating everyone.” The Tunis conference of Western, Arab and other countries was intended to ratchet up diplomatic pressure on Assad to end an almost year-long crackdown on opponents of his 11-year rule in which thousands of Syrians have been killed. But to beleaguered Syrians the speeches seemed remote. A doctor in the restive town of Zabadani said: “I’m really frightened that after all these efforts we will still end up like Hama in 1982, killed while the world waits and watches.” “The people of Zabadani resent what happened in Tunis,” said the doctor. “We need them to arm the revolution. I don’t understand what they are waiting for. Do they need to see half the people of Syria finished off first?” |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 Tell ya the truth, I think we're better off when these assholes are trying to kill each other instead of thinking up ways to kill us. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2012-02-26 21:05 |
| #1 Maybe that little deity you all pray to 5 times a day to is not helping you? Maybe upgrade prayer mats, or the loudspeaker on the mosque should be adjusted. It's not the world you little idiots, it's your corrupt culture of hell. And Baby Assads. Cry me a river? |
| Posted by: newc 2012-02-26 00:24 |