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[Dyno]

A shit load of explosions and gunfire going on in the distance tonight. really unnerving. Fuck.

[edit] wow, almost feels like a constant at this point. I'm really not cut out for ths shit.

Best wishes to you to and your family dude!

 

[Dyno]

Here's an article explaining how hospitals, clinics, and even the doctors themselves are being targeted to deny the Syrian people medical treatment for wounds.

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/30/syrias_walking_wounded/

 

[Jackpot]

You are a joke of a person.

At least he's stopped claiming the Syrian Army had nothing to do with it ever since the Russian foreign minister stated Syrian tanks shelled Homs.

 

[nib95]

A shit load of explosions and gunfire going on in the distance tonight. really unnerving. Fuck.

[edit] wow, almost feels like a constant at this point. I'm really not cut out for ths shit.

Damn, didn't realise you were from Syria dude. My prayers are with you. Just stay inside and try and avoid whatever shit is going on outside.

 

[theignoramus]

Here's an article explaining how hospitals, clinics, and even the doctors themselves are being targeted to deny the Syrian people medical treatment for wounds.

http://www.salon.com/2012/05/30/syrias_walking_wounded/

they dont want anything entering the medical records. they know human rights groups use it to verify shootings, torture and ill treatment and they dont want doctors testifying about the wounds they've been treating.

 

[volturnus]

11-year-old played dead to survive Syria massacre

The boy's story is interesting enough, but there's another thing worth mentioning.
He said the killers had shaved heads and long beards, but beards are forbidden in the Syrian Army, so it could not have been goverment forces killing children up close.

 

[Dead Man]

11-year-old played dead to survive Syria massacre

The boy's story is interesting enough, but there's another thing worth mentioning.
He said the killers had shaved heads and long beards, but beards are forbidden in the Syrian Army, so it could not have been goverment forces killing children up close.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but just because they are not regular army forces doesn't mean they are any particular allegiance.

 

[L0st Id3ntity]

Here is a translated video interview with that kid, clearly indicating army & shabiha:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9KnjNxU8nI

Countless survivors confirm the military and shabiha's involvement, including a channel 4 report:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsjmalW91Ks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQqICzMD3b8

 

[maquiladora]

Reuters Top News ‏@Reuters

UN Rights Council condemns Syria for Houla massacre, sets UN investigation to gather evidence for future prosecution.

Nadim Houry ‏@nadimhoury

JUST IN: Result of Human Rights Council voting on ‪#Syria‬ resolution: 41 Yes, 3 No (Russia china Cuba), 2 abstentions Uganda Ecuador

Best friends to the end.

 

[maquiladora]

Breaking News ‏@BreakingNews

Syria rebels' spokesman says no longer committed to Annan ceasefire - @Reuters

Breaking News ‏@BreakingNews

Syria rebels' spokesman: Wants UN peace enforcement mission or internationally imposed fly-ban, buffer zone instead of monitoring - @Reuters

And on it goes...

 

[Solid warrior]

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/...ula-abermals-massaker-in-syrien-11776496.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/06/were_syrian_rebels_behind_houla_massacre.html

[A]ccording to a new report in Germany's leading daily, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), the Houla massacre was in fact committed by anti-Assad Sunni militants, and the bulk of the victims were member of the Alawi and Shia minorities, which have been largely supportive of Assad. For its account of the massacre, the report cites opponents of Assad, who, however, declined to have their names appear in print out of fear of reprisals from armed opposition groups.

According to the article's sources, the massacre occurred after rebel forces attacked three army-controlled roadblocks outside of Houla. The roadblocks had been set up to protect nearby Alawi majority villages from attacks by Sunni militias. The rebel attacks provoked a call for reinforcements by the besieged army units. Syrian army and rebel forces are reported to have engaged in battle for some 90 minutes, during which time "dozens of soldiers and rebels" were killed.

the massacre occurred during this time. Those killed were almost exclusively from families belonging to Houla's Alawi and Shia minorities. Over 90% of Houla's population are Sunnis. Several dozen members of a family were slaughtered, which had converted from Sunni to Shia Islam. Members of the Shomaliya, an Alawi family, were also killed, as was the family of a Sunni member of the Syrian parliament who is regarded as a collaborator. Immediately following the massacre, the perpetrators are supposed to have filmed their victims and then presented them as Sunni victims in videos posted on the internet.

The FAZ report echoes eyewitness accounts collected from refugees from the Houla region by members of the Monastery of St. James in Qara, Syria. According to monastery sources cited by the Dutch Middle East expert Martin Janssen, armed rebels murdered "entire Alawi families" in the village of Taldo in the Houla region.

Already at the beginning of April, Mother Agnès-Mariam de la Croix of the St. James Monastery warned of rebel atrocities' being repackaged in both Arab and Western media accounts as regime atrocities. She cited the case of a massacre in the Khalidiya neighborhood in Homs. According to an account published in French on the monastery's website, rebels gathered Christian and Alawi hostages in a building in Khalidiya and blew up the building with dynamite. They then attributed the crime to the regular Syrian army. "Even though this act has been attributed to regular army forces . . . the evidence and testimony are irrefutable: It was an operation undertaken by armed groups affiliated with the opposition," Mother Agnès-Mariam wrote.

a new account of what happened there.

 

[maquiladora]

Live broadcast from Homs, a lot of gunfire and heavy shelling at the moment.

http://bambuser.com/v/2735300

Edit: Fucking terrifying hearing the shells scream overhead and explode.

 

[Brolic Gaoler]

Live broadcast from Homs, a lot of gunfire and heavy shelling at the moment.

http://bambuser.com/v/2735300

Edit: Fucking terrifying hearing the shells scream overhead and explode.

It's even more crazy in person, should you ever experience such a thing.

 

[maquiladora]

Fuck. Huge explosion/fireball.

 

[maquiladora]

Mina Al-Oraibi ‏@AlOraibi

Clinton says reports over 24-48 hours of Syrian Army amassing around Aleppo, she says this 'may be red line for the Turks'

Aleppo is the biggest city in Syria, close to the Turkish border and has a large Turkmen population.