Bassem Mroue Friday 02 March 2012
The Independent
"The Red Cross dispatched an aid convoy to an embattled neighbourhood in the Syrian city of Homs today, as the UN said it was alarmed by reports of execution-style killings after the Syrian army seized the area from rebel forces.
The seizure of Baba Amr by the Syrian army was a blow to the rebels seeking to overthrow the regime of authoritarian President Bashar Assad. The central city of Homs, Syria's third largest, has emerged as a key battleground in the 11-month-old anti-Assad uprisings.
Before government forces stormed the area yesterday, it had been under a tight siege and daily shelling for nearly four weeks. Activists said hundreds were killed and many lived for days with little food and no electricity or running water.
A spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said Friday the agency had received unconfirmed reports of "a particularly grisly set of summary executions" involving 17 people in the area after government forces entered....."
The Independent
"The Red Cross dispatched an aid convoy to an embattled neighbourhood in the Syrian city of Homs today, as the UN said it was alarmed by reports of execution-style killings after the Syrian army seized the area from rebel forces.
The seizure of Baba Amr by the Syrian army was a blow to the rebels seeking to overthrow the regime of authoritarian President Bashar Assad. The central city of Homs, Syria's third largest, has emerged as a key battleground in the 11-month-old anti-Assad uprisings.
Before government forces stormed the area yesterday, it had been under a tight siege and daily shelling for nearly four weeks. Activists said hundreds were killed and many lived for days with little food and no electricity or running water.
A spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said Friday the agency had received unconfirmed reports of "a particularly grisly set of summary executions" involving 17 people in the area after government forces entered....."
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