BASHAR AL ASSAD AND THE UNITED NATIONS …. PARTNERS

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A LITTLE CHILD GIVES TESTIMONY ON HOW HIS FAMILY WAS KILLED BY ASSAD’S FORCES. HOW HIS MOTHER WAS EXECUTED IN FRONT OF HIM. Homs (Houla): May 25, 2012 - Over the next few days and weeks, there will literally be dozens of stories of horror just like this one and the ones below. 

A young girl describes what happened to her family.

More testimony from a grandmother.

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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.

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ARAB INDIFFERENCE TO THE HOULA MASSACRE -(TRANSLATION): “Houla Massacre! There is no power greater than God Almighty!” …. then nothing. BY IMAD HAJJAJ 

***HAMA MASSACRE*** THE DEAD, THE DYING, THE WOUNDED. MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN ARE BROUGHT TO A MAKESHIFT CLINIC AFTER ASSAD SHELLS THEIR HOMES. Hama (Janoob Al Mala’ab): May 27, 2012 - Scenes of chaos, despair, fear and death. This is what Assad specializes in. These people laying about the floor. The men and the children. These are Assad’s enemies. These are the people Assad and his supporters wish to wipe off the face of the earth so that they can enjoy their spoils of raping a country for their own benefit.

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One of the bloodiest civilian massacres in Syria to date that left more than ninety people dead – at least a third of them children.

At noon on Friday, they gathered for their familiar and increasingly futile weekly ritual – an act of peaceable defiance against the regime they loathe. The chants resounded far and wide, audible to the army troops menacingly nearby and to the adjoining Allawite villages largely sympathetic to the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad. “The Allawites have been hearing our chants for many months,” said Houla resident Abu Jaffour. “And neither they, nor the army have liked what we’ve been saying. Maybe that’s why they did what they did.”  

Three hours later, vengeance rolled into town with a savagery rarely paralleled in the 15-month Syrian uprising. When the shelling and gunfire stopped early on Saturday, more than 90 people had been killed, at least one-third of them children. Some appeared to have been killed at close range as they cowered in barricaded homes.  

In a few short hours, the town of Houla joined the sorry list of localities whose names have become synonymous with the merciless slaughter of civilians. Srebrenica. Nyarubuye. My Lai. Up to now, the Syrian conflict has killed 13,000 people. But until this weekend, it had yet to include the mass slaughter of nursery-age infants.

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***HAMA MASSACRE *** TRAGIC*** ONE MAN TAKES HIS FINAL BREATH NEXT TO ANOTHER MAN TAKING HIS LAST BREATHS ON THIS EARTH. Hama (Janoob Al Mala’ab): May 27, 2012 - What more can those around him do for him when there is no medical equipment, no medicine, not enough doctors, no hospitals, no clinics …. nothing. All they can do is shout his name “Feras!” and hope to God for the best.

The man laying next to Feras is now dead and being prepared for burial. However Feras is still breathing …

Here he is next to more bodies, still struggling to breathe. 

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***HAMA MASSACRE*** BODIES LAY IN WAIT FOR THEIR BURIAL AFTER ASSAD’S FORCES SHELL THE TOWN - ALL THEY CAN DO IS STACK ICE BLOCKS ON THEM. Hama (Janoob Al Mala’ab): May 27, 2012 - Prominent activist Khaled Abu Salah said “Soon we will stop counting the dead and instead be counting the massacres”. This is the way it is looking. There are so many dead across Syria now. 

A new massacre everyday.

More bodies pile up in the same room.

Dead bodies are everywhere, mixed with the injured and the dying.

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***HAMA MASSACRE*** A LITTLE BOY IS KILLED BY SHELLING FROM ASSAD’S FORCES IN ANOTHER MASSACRE IN SYRIA. Hama (Janoob Al Mala’ab): May 27, 2012 - Majed Ghraywati is only a little boy. What did he do to deserve such a brutal and merciless end? Where can this little boy hide from the shells? How could his parents have possibly protected him from such brutal Russian made weapons?

He is one among 30 that were killed on this night in this area of Hama city.

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***VERY GRAPHIC*** THE BABY FROM THE MASSACRE OF THE AL SALEEM FAMILY (MOTHER + 5 CHILDREN) HAS BEEN FOUND. DEAD. Hama: May 26, 2012 - Little Yacoub Areeb Al Saleem was the youngest of five children to be murdered by Assad’s forces. His body was found a few days after the rest of his family.

They were stopped at a checkpoint in Hama and abducted then slaughtered. Assad’s forces did this in order to incite sectarian revenge and ignite a civil war. Something they desperately want to happen in order to fit their narrative of ‘fighting islamists’

Article in The Telegraph on the massacre.

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THE INDEPENDENT FRONT COVER ON THE HOULA MASSACRE (SYRIA).

PICTURE ALBUM OF THE VICTIMS OF THE MASSACRE HERE.

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