The bombardment of Homs will be judged by history as a massacre comparable to Rwanda or Srebrenica, says a British photographer injured in the attacks. (Also read : 'The enforcer' who heads Syria’s dreaded army division (France 24))
Paul Conroy:describes 'slaughterhouse' in Homs will be the next Srebrenica or Rwanda:
Paul Conroy::Homs is comparable to Srebrenica or Rwanda:
Paul Conroy on CNN with Anderson Cooper:
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Marie Colvin last report:
Journalist Marie Colvin in one of her last reports from Syria. She was a great journalist and an amazing person. Killed while covering the plight of the people of Homs Syria.
Paul Conroy: Homs comparable to Srebrenica and Rwanda (bbc)
The bombardment of Homs will be judged by history as a massacre comparable to Rwanda or Srebrenica, says a British photographer injured in the attacks.Paul Conroy, 47, told BBC's Newsnight he had witnessed "a systematic slaughter of the civilian population".
In all his experience of war zones, he had never seen anything on this level, he said, and in 10 years, the world would be "wringing its hands" in shame.
Journalist Marie Colvin, killed in the shelling, was "the best of the best".
"I don't know anyone who had her tenacity and bravery," he said of his Sunday Times colleague.
Mr Conroy, who was smuggled to Lebanon by Syrian rebels, paid tribute to the "heroes" who helped him escape, but he feared for their safety and for all the Syrian people.
"We left behind what I fear is going to be the next Rwanda, the next Srebrenica."
The bombing of Baba Amr - the rebel district of Homs which has received the brunt of the Syrian authorities' attacks - is indiscriminate, he said.
"There are no military targets, it's pure and systematic slaughter of a civilian population. The only reason those shells are going in are to eliminate the people and buildings of Baba Amr."
Conroy spent days stranded in Baba Amr with shrapnel wounds picked up in a rocket attack that killed Colvin and French journalist Remi Ochlik.
Speaking from his hospital bed in London, Conroy described conditions in Homs as catastrophic, with people living in "bombed-out wrecks" and "waiting to die".
The next phase in the conflict will not be televised but it will happen, he said.
Urging the international community to act, he said that when Baba Amr fell, the regime would turn to other areas.
"When Baba Amr is finished, and I think it's almost there now, we've watched it happen, they're going to move on, they're going to move into the countryside, the towns and there will be no witnesses," he said.
"Women, children, old men, young people will just cease to exist, they will cease to exist and in 10 years we will have an investigation and people will say 'how did this happen?'"
Conroy, originally from Liverpool but now living in Devon, said the moment his building was hit was "was traumatic, instant chaos".
"A few shells had hit the house and the final shell that killed Marie and Remi, my friend, everything went black, I felt a huge pressure in my leg... I realised it was bad, stuck a tourniquet on and essentially tried to crawl out the house where I found Marie."
He said they were taken to a field hospital which was "a living room and a kitchen table essentially," where doctors had limited supplies.
The building was taking direct hits in intense shelling which lasted 14 hours a day, he said.
"It was intense to start with but as the week went on we were living minute-by-minute in that room, literally you could hear the shells coming in.
"We also had the medics coming in saying 'We've just lost another 10 men, another five children,' so while we were in this situation we were getting daily, hourly, minute-by-minute reports of the slaughter outside, which was quite un-nerving."
Meanwhile, the International Committee of the Red Cross said it had received the bodies of Colvin and Ochlik, and taken them to Damascus.
The Red Cross said on Saturday it will try again to be allowed access to the devastated Baba Amr district of the Syrian city of Homs, after being blocked on Friday.
It said it was "unacceptable" that its seven-lorry convoy had been stopped.
There have been reports of revenge killings and summary executions by Syrian forces since rebel fighters pulled out of Baba Amr on Thursday.
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Thanks, Darius. You may also wan't to check this
by FG on Mon Mar 05, 2012 07:20 AM PSTRussian military advisors are behind some of Assad's most brutal tactics. I imagine they will render similar assistance to Khamenei. In that case, the slaughter of Iranian civilians will be tremendous.
See: //iranian.com/main/news/2012/03/05/what-russia-taught-syria-when-you-destroy-city-make-sure-no-one-not-even-story-gets-
Like Assad and Putin, Khamenei will commit any crime against his people to remain in power. For those who have forgotten what the ruling mullahs are capable of see:
//iranian.com/main/blog/fg/new-evidence-khamenei-endorsed-crimes-kharizak
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Your welcome Mehrban Jan & Soosan Khanoom Jan
by Darius Kadivar on Mon Mar 05, 2012 06:59 AM PSTAnd Thank you for your feedbacks.
Thanks Dear DK for the blog.
by Soosan Khanoom on Mon Mar 05, 2012 06:34 AM PSTIt is a sad reminder of how a dictatorial regime at home with its power hungry supporters in the region such as Russia, China, and IRI in one hand and the U.S / Israel intervention in a nation's internal affairs in the name of democracy on the other hand can do to a country and its innocents people. Let us pray and hope this will not be the future of the Iranian nation. Something that I am 100 percent sure is on the shameless TO DO list of the Superpowers.
Hopefully in these outrages medieval atrocities by both sides there are many lessons to be learned for us Iranians.
"My son's throat was cut. He was 12", one woman told Paul Wood
by Darius Kadivar on Mon Mar 05, 2012 06:02 AM PSTTales of slaughter (BBC, VIDEO)
People fleeing the Syrian city of Homs have accused the security forces of committing atrocities, including summary executions and cutting the throats of prisoners.
Troops and paramilitaries took full control of the Bab Amr quarter of Homs over the weekend after a month of bombardment.
Opposition activists say some 4,000 people have left so far.
The Syrian government says it seized back the area from what it calls "terrorist" groups paid by foreign governments to destabilise the country.
The BBC's Paul Wood and cameraman Fred Scott sent this exclusive report from the outskirts of Homs.
Eyewitness: 'Slaughtered like sheep' in Homs
by Darius Kadivar on Mon Mar 05, 2012 05:54 AM PSTEyewitness: 'Slaughtered like sheep' in Homs (bbc)
On a road out of Homs I saw the exodus from Baba Amr.
These people endured weeks under bombardment then fled, panicked, before troops arrived.
One woman screamed: "We are homeless. Why? Because we asked for freedom."
People are terrified of what government forces will do now that they have entered Baba Amr, the district of Homs controlled until last Thursday by the rebels of the Free Syrian Army.
One group had walked for three days to avoid the soldiers.
Syria refugees tell of executions
by Darius Kadivar on Mon Mar 05, 2012 05:52 AM PSTSyria refugees tell of executions (bbc)
People fleeing the central Syrian city of Homs have told the BBC that security forces are committing atrocities there.
One woman told the BBC's Paul Wood on the outskirts of Homs that soldiers had slit the throat of her 12-year-old son on Friday - a day after rebel fighters withdrew from the Baba Amr district.
She said 35 other men and boys from her area had also been detained and killed.
Thank you DK
by Mehrban on Sat Mar 03, 2012 07:04 PM PSTI listened to Paul Conroy's testimonial. Thank you for bringing it to us.
The UN Secretary General made a vague statement as to the urgency of the situation in Baba Amr. But no plans.
I read that twenty activists were killed trying to get Bouvier out.