March 2012
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BBC News - Syria crisis: UN demands Valerie Amos...
The UN Security Council is demanding immediate access to Syria for its humanitarian chief, Valerie Amos. Russia and China, who vetoed two previous Security Council resolutions on Syria, are also backing the call for Baroness Amos to be allowed in. It comes as the rebel Free Syrian Army said it was withdrawing from the Baba Amr district of Homs, which has been under siege for nearly a month. ...
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February 2012
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The Destruction of Mosques and Churches this week...
The Destruction of Mosques and Churches this week...
The Assad Regime's campaign of destruction and...
Videos of the shelling of 2 Mosques and a Church...
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DARAA citizens forced to be refugees by thugs...
BUSR AL HARIR: DARAA: This video shows the regime policy, which was first carried out in Hama and more recently going through the Damascus suburbs as a scorched earth policy. Regime thugs go from village to village looting and destroying everything, even food, and then burning what remains. Most people flee their homes and have no new homes to go to. Life as internal refugees is even more...
As Journalists And Video Bloggers Are Killed,...
Among those killed in yesterday’s attack on the journalists’ position were three activists. One of those was video blogger Rami Ahmad al-Sayed, who was also known as “Syria Pioneer“. Ahmad al-Sayed had uploaded over 200 videos to various platforms of the killing and destruction in his area. We wrote about him and his video only this week when the Syrian government blocked Bambuser, the live...
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Foreign Office summons Syrian Ambassador re: the...
On the Foreign Secretary’s instructions, the Syrian Ambassador to London, Dr Sami Khiyami, was summoned to the Foreign Office this afternoon to see the Political Director Sir Geoffrey Adams. Sir Geoffrey began by referring to the Foreign Secretary’s statement today on the death of Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik and stressed the grief we all felt. Marie Colvin was an outstanding Sunday Times...
ASSADI DEMOCRACY IN ACTION: Sec forces forcing...
MEDIA REPORTING PLEASE: REFERENDUM - ASSADI DEMOCRACY IN ACTION: Homs: Security forces are stopping the passers by near the Old Clock in the market, taking their ID cards and asking them to come to the Voting Centers on Sunday to take them back.
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Avaaz - Arab League: Save Syrian Lives
Update: 22 February 2012Today in Syria 7 unarmed activists were assassinated in cold blood while trying to bring medical supplies into the city of Homs. They join thousands of brave citizens, medical workers, and journalists murdered by a regime that has gone beyond all limits of brutality. Avaaz is calling for an urgent humanitarian ceasefire (read the press release here) and more than 400,000...
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▶ Audioboo / Tom Coghlan: 'Indiscriminate'...
Tom Coghlan: “Indiscriminate” violence in Homs province (mp3) There are reports that at least 50 people, including four children, were killed by government forces across Syria yesterday. Tom Coghlan, correspondent for The Times, describes the scene in the province of Homs where 30 people were killed during a heavy bombardment of the city.
Video: Baba Amr 22 02 2012 bodies of Foreign...
via youtube.com American journalist Marie Colvin and the French journalist Remy Otlik died today in Baba Amr - Homs as the Syrian regime targeted the house in which all foreign jounrnalists stay in. Reporter Khaled Abo Salah goes to the house and reports from there.
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Syrian Refugees 'Forced' to Return Home by Turkey...
A secret refugee camp where Syrians fleeing from Assad’s crackdown are coerced into returning to Syria has been discovered just inside the Turkish border, according to a local newspaper. Radikal daily reported on the camp in Kuyubaşı, just 1km from the border, which is not listed among the six official camps in the province. The camp was allegedly set up as a deportation...
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Russia boosts arms sales to Syria
MOSCOW/BEIRUT/WASHINGTON: Russia faces a growing international outcry over its arms sales to Syria but shows no sign of bowing to pressure and has even increased deliveries of arms that critics say are helping keep President Bashar al-Assad in power. The biggest importer of arms to Syria, Russia sold Damascus nearly $1 billion worth of arms including missile systems last year, while...
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Send a Letter to the President of Russia to stop...
Send a Letter to the President Please read the following carefully before you send any letter addressed to the President of Russia. Please fill in the form correctly before sending an electronic message. Information on the current message status will be sent to its author’s email address indicated in the form. A reply to the appeal will be sent via ordinary mail to the mailing...
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RIP citizen journalist Rami al-Sayyed of #Homs,...
via youtube.com Citizen journalist Rami al-Sayyed has died in Homs. The last video on his incredible video channel is of his own body. Rest in peace.
Hmouria | the spread of the tanks in Damascus...
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The number of people killed in Syria today reached...
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Avaaz - Arab League: Save Syrian Lives
With each passing day, Syria’s crackdown on democracy protesters reaches new levels of horror — bombing crowded neighborhoods filled with innocent civilians, cutting off electricity and phones so families can’t call for help, and blocking medical aid to the wounded. But finally a flicker of hope is emerging that could stop the terror. After the UN Security Council failed,...
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Babaamr child martyr rocket shrapnel +18 21 2...
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LiveStreams from Homs Syria
Homs is being shelled. Live stream right here: laceldabierta.com
#Syria Updates for Monday, 20 Feb. #Homs #Damascus
18+ Syria - Assad Massacres Hama Civilians -...
via youtube.com 18+ Adults Only - Warning - Contains Graphic Images - Not for Shock - Documentary Evidence of Crimes Against Humanity Committed by Syria Dictator Bashar Assad against the unarmed Civilian population of Kfrenbaudh in Hama where the Assad Army attacked and bombed houses and massacred local Civilians on February 16, 2102 Syria Today 19-2-2012 Posted by abeer on...
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A Displaced woman explains the situation in Baba...
Baba Amr has been under siege for a month. They are shelling Baba Amr from every direction. The situation there is terrifying… no food, no water, no gas available. Many civilians are under rubble due to the shelling which is still continuous for 15 days. Getting out from Baba Amr is almost impossible. Everybody is prevented from getting out from the area. The woman and her family have...
Collected Tweets from @arwacnn from inside #Homs...
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A Syrian child tells his suffering #Syria...
“I want to be the President to the Syrian Arab Republic” From these children we gain our strength!!…we are fighting for them, for their future. Art sketches on concrete walls… … Syrians’ creativeness blossoms everyday…he is a child but with a man’s bravery and courage. God willing one day your drawings will be in the world’s famous art galleries. One of his drawings was” Syria is...
A march reportedly in support of the Alawite sect...
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#Syria Updates: the story of 3 families in...
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Trigger warning: extremely graphic. Assad's thugs,...
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"We Are All Greeks" international solidarity...
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Pls RT! Leaked information indicates that the...
For over than two weeks, the steadfast Baba Amro neighborhood in Homs has been under barbaric siege and shelling. Hundreds of its citizens are martyred. Children, women, and elderly are injured in addition to total destruction of dozens of buildings and the neighborhood’s infrastructure which deprives the citizens from the most basic and simple life requirements. In Baba Amro...
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U.N. assembly adopts resolution condemning Syria -...
* Russia, China vote against General Assembly resolution * 137 votes in favor, 12 against, 17 abstentions * Syria rejects resolution and Arabs’ ‘shameful’ position via trust.org
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Computer spyware is newest weapon in Syrian...
STORY HIGHLIGHTS U.S. antivirus experts say a virus is sending information to a server in Syria Activists: Regime supporters are stealing oppositionists’ online identities’ Imposters use stolen identities to pass the viruses to activists, opposition claims Antivirus software may not yet optimally protect against the new viruses via edition.cnn.com For more details, can read...
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Pls RT: Iranian rappers sing for people of #Homs...
via youtube.com ”Even if i am drowned in my own blood, I won’t shut up” “You better know that Iranians can’t keep quite while you kill” Iranian rappers sing for people of Homs in Syria! Great beat into it, English subtitles are provided. Please share!
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Video: 'Dire conditions' in Syria – Anderson...
via ac360.blogs.cnn.com CNN’s Arwa Damon is in Homs, Syria. She describes the senseless murders and level of despair to Anderson Cooper. “There is nothing like it”.
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The Revolutionary Command Council in Damascus’s daily report of field events for 15 2 2012 in Arabic.
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مجلس قيادة الثورة في ريف دمشق|| التقرير اليومي للأحداث الميدانية 15 2 2012|| المكتب الإعلامي
مجلس قيادة الثورة في ريف دمشق|| التقرير اليومي للأحداث…
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* the neighbourhoods in Hader are completely under siege and the sounds of gunfire and explosions are heard non-stop * the neighbourhoods of the Souq is witnessing intensive security presence and random raids and arrests * humanitarian situation generally bad in the city as there…
HOMS; BABA AMR: PLEASE PRAY: The people are trying to build a barrier to prevent the fire, which is still burning, from spreading through the district.
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Update on the attack on Masayfrah, #Daraa, last... →
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MASAYFRAH: DARAA: We are finally able to release a report from the Regime attack on Saturday and Sunday which shows the lengths the Regime will go to in the smaller towns to obliterate the rebels, civilians and Free Syrian Army.
The military campaign led by the regime’s army last…
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