Kofi Annan should push Syria’s government to allow the UN-appointed Commission of Inquiry access into the country to investigate the May 25, 2012, killing of at least 108 Houla residents, Human Rights Watch said today ahead of an impending visit by the UN envoy to Damascus. The Syrian government has so far refused entry to the UN-mandated commission. Human Rights Watch also reiterated its call to the UN Security Council to refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Following a May 26 visit to Houla, a region made up of several villages about 20 kilometers northwest of the restive city of Homs, UN monitors confirmed the killings and condemned the “brutal tragedy.” The head of the UN monitoring mission in Syria, Maj Gen Robert Mood, told the media that some of the dead had been killed by shelling and others shot at close range, but did not attribute responsibility for the close-range killing. According to survivors that Human Rights Watch interviewed and local activists, the Syrian army shelled the area on May 25, and armed men, dressed in military clothes, attacked homes on the outskirts of town and executed entire families.

All of the witnesses stated the armed men were pro-government, but they did not know whether they were members of the Syrian army or a pro-government militia, locally referred to as shabeeha. Houla’s towns, overwhelmingly Sunni, are surrounded by Alawite and Shia villages, and sectarian tensions have been high since last year. At a press conference on May 27, a spokesman for the Syrian Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ministry categorically denied the army’s responsibility for the killings and announced that the government had formed a military judicial committee to conduct an investigation.

“WHERE OH WHERE ARE THE ARABS!” THE BRAVE AND DEFIANT PEOPLE OF HOULA PROTEST A DAY AFTER THE HORRIFIC MASSACRE. Homs (Houla): May 27, 2012 - Where else on Earth would this be possible other than Syria? A day after 32 children and 60 men and women were massacred by Assad’s forces, the people of Al-Houla still came out to protest for their freedom.

This is why the Syrian Revolution will prevail and Assad will fall.

Thanks @HamaEcho

***HOULA MASSACRE*** A SURVIVOR OF THE HOULEH MASSACRE - A LITTLE BABY RECEIVING TREATMENT FOR HEAD AND STOMACH WOUNDS. Homs (Houla): May 25, 2012 - He is getting treatment at a make-shift clinic by volunteers. Despite the hell this little baby has been through, Assad still refuses to allow him or anyone else to receive treatment at any hospital by any doctor in Syria.

Thanks @Brown_Moses

PICTURE ALBUM OF THE VICTIMS OF THE MASSACRE HERE.

YOU CAN HELP, please donate to one of the following or contact your local representatives:  :

Avaaz.org - Int’l organization smuggling medical aid into Syria

Humanitarian Relief For Syria - Supports needy families and orphans as well as distributing aid in Syria

Syrian Orphans - A collection of Non-Profit Org’s supporting orphans in Syria

http://rise4humanity.org - Dedicated to helping the children of Syria via donations and awareness campaigns 

***HOULA MASSACRE*** A ROOM IS FILLED WITH A DOZEN SHROUDED CORPSES. SOME OF THE 92 MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN MASSACRED IN HOULEH BY ASSAD’S FORCES. Homs (Houla):May 25, 2012 - There is no need for further explanation. 32 of the victims were small children. Many butchered and bludgeoned to death. 

Thanks @Brown_Moses

PICTURE ALBUM OF THE VICTIMS OF THE MASSACRE HERE.

YOU CAN HELP, please donate to one of the following or contact your local representatives:  :

Avaaz.org - Int’l organization smuggling medical aid into Syria

Humanitarian Relief For Syria - Supports needy families and orphans as well as distributing aid in Syria

Syrian Orphans - A collection of Non-Profit Org’s supporting orphans in Syria

http://rise4humanity.org - Dedicated to helping the children of Syria via donations and awareness campaigns 

***LEAKED VIDEO HORRIFIC*** A TRUE SCENE OF HELL. ASSAD’S FORCES FILM INSIDE THE HOMES OF FAMILIES THEY JUST MURDERED IN BABA AMR & JOBAR. Homs (Baba Amr) - Bodies of mutilated, burnt and crushed men and women are strewn about the rubble after Assad’s forces enter the district of Baba Amr after a month long siege where they shelled the area round-the-clock for 30 days and cut off all food and medical supplies.

When they finally entered the neighborhood, the most impoverished in Homs, they went from house to house and executed entire families or anyone that dared to stay. Many of their victims had their throats slit and were burnt.

This is Assad. These are his forces. This is what they do.

Thanks @HamaEcho

You can help, please donate to one of the following:

Avaaz.org - Int’l organization smuggling medical aid into Syria

Humanitarian Relief For Syria - Supports needy families and orphans as well as distributing aid in Syria

Syrian Orphans - A collection of Non-Profit Org’s supporting orphans in Syria

http://rise4humanity.org - Dedicated to helping the children of Syria via donations and awareness campaigns 

ABU DHABI // The international community vowed yesterday to revive the Syrian economy when President Bashar Al Assad’s regime is toppled.  

At a meeting held at the capital’s Emirates Palace hotel, representatives from more than 60 countries presented economic development plans and reforms, which they hoped would give Syrians an “optimistic look to their future”.  

In what was described as a “clear message to the Syrian people”, the UAE and Germany, who co-chaired the meeting, announced they would fund the establishment of a general secretariat to co-ordinate global efforts.

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ASSAD’S FORCES KILLED THEIR FATHER. NOW THEY SHELLED HIS GRAVE. EVEN IN DEATHT THEY WILL NOT LET HIM REST IN PEACE. Homs (Jobar): May 25, 2012 - The child explains how his father was killed by Assad’s forces in Baba Amr, Homs and how the grave of his father (behind him) was also shelled.

If Assad could kill every Syrian twice, he would.

Thanks @AAzizAlSibaai

You can help, please donate to one of the following:

Avaaz.org - Int’l organization smuggling medical aid into Syria

Humanitarian Relief For Syria - Supports needy families and orphans as well as distributing aid in Syria

Syrian Orphans - A collection of Non-Profit Org’s supporting orphans in Syria

http://rise4humanity.org - Dedicated to helping the children of Syria via donations and awareness campaigns 

HE WAS JUST A TEENAGER. ASSADS’S FORCES DID NOT CARE, THEY STILL KILLED HIM. Damascus (Douma): May 24, 2012 - Ahmad Hashem Al-Abtah was only sixteen (16) years old when a sniper under the orders of Bashar Al Assad pointed his scope at the teenager, fired and killed him.

He should be heading into his final years of high school. Not laying dead as a result of his ‘government’ murdering him.

Thanks @HamaEcho

You can help, please donate to one of the following:

Avaaz.org - Int’l organization smuggling medical aid into Syria

Humanitarian Relief For Syria - Supports needy families and orphans as well as distributing aid in Syria

Syrian Orphans - A collection of Non-Profit Org’s supporting orphans in Syria

http://rise4humanity.org - Dedicated to helping the children of Syria via donations and awareness campaigns 

***INCREDIBLE FOOTAGE*** THE FREE SYRIAN ARMY REPEL AN ATTACK BY ASSAD’S FORCES AND SEND THEM FLEEING. Damascus (Douma): May 20, 2012 - The newly formed FSA battalion (seen here) sent hundreds of Assad’s men fleeing by foot and in their buses, trucks, vans, tanks and even by tractor.

Assad’s forces fled like the cowards they are. They signed up to murder unarmed Syrians. They did not sign up to fight.

Thanks @HamaEcho

***MUST WATCH*** BBC’S LYCE DOUCET TRAVELS TO HOMS WITH UNITED NATIONS MONITORS. Please watch and share. Witness a fraction of the utter destruction and devastation that Assad’s army has brought upon the Capital of the Syrian Revolution.

Thanks @Samsomhoms

ASSAD’S GUNSHIPS WOULD FACE CERTAIN DEATH AGAINST ANY REAL ARMY - BUT AGAINST UNARMED CIVILIANS, THEY WORK JUST FINE. Idleb (Jabal Al-Zaweyeh): May 24, 2012 - Assad’s fleet of decrepit Russian made and supplied helicopter gunships bring a reign of terror over the towns and villages they target. Assad did not dare to use these helicopters to liberate the Golan Heights, it was never his intention (or his fathers) when he purchased them.

They always knew who the intended target was: Unarmed Syrians. 

Thanks @IbnOmar2005

A MORNING JUST LIKE ANY OTHER … SERENE SILENCE, BIRDS CHIRPING … AND THE TERRIFYING SOUND OF ROCKETS FLYING FOLLOWED BY SICKENING EXPLOSIONS. Homs (Rastan): May 23, 2012 - This is how the people of Rastan wake up each morning. The UN Observers refuse to stay in the city for more than a few hours due to the shelling by Assad’s forces. 

More shelling here.

Thanks @NuffSilence

ASSAD’S FORCES CONTINUE TO USE RUSSIAN HELICOPTER GUNSHIPS TO ATTACK TOWNS ACROSS SYRIA. Idleb (Ma’ar Shamreen): May 22, 2012 - This is the reason why Syrians have been pleading with the international community for a “No Fly Zone”. Their voices are left unheard though …

Thanks @SyriaArchives

***VERY GRAPHIC*** “JUST DRUG ME PLEASE! TAKE THE PAIN AWAY! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!” THE END RESULT OF AN ASSADIST TANK SHELL. Hama: May 20, 2012 - We are told that Mohamed Abdul-Kareem Hamoud later died from the injuries suffered in the attack. Assad’s forces fired a Russian made and supplied tank shell at this man.

The man at the end of the video is different patient, presumably from the same attack.

Thanks @HamaEcho

MORE BODIES FROM THE MASSACRE IN SOURAN, HAMA. TWO BROTHERS BOTH MURDERED TOGETHER. Hama (Souran) : May 20, 2012 -  Yousef Abdul-Qader Yousef (the younger boy) and Abdulrahman Abdul-Qader Yousef.

Never forget their names. They died for a free Syria.