Another monitoring
mission, another set of people from all over the world making excuses, trying
to explain the unexplainable and getting frustrated and fired upon to boot. When
will the world follow a plan
that makes sense. To the world we say: Give us what we need to get
the mission accomplished, not what you need to feel good about yourselves.
Saturday April 21, 2012
Death Toll: 25,
including 13 in Aleppo, 4 in Homs, 4 in Daraa, 2 in Rural Damascus, 1 in
Hassakeh and 1 in Deir Ezzor.
The pounding of Homs City
was halted due to presence of UN monitors, who were nonetheless fired on during
their visit to Khalidyeh and other beleaguered neighborhoods.
At night, local activists reported
explosions and gunfire at the Mazzeh Military Airport near Damascus City.
News
Op-Eds & Special Reports
Security Council adopts a resolution to deploy
300 observers to Syria, yet ethnic strife on the ground and disagreements among
world powers cast doubt over mission's effectiveness.
Video Highlights
UN
monitors come under fire in Khaldiyeh as local try to protect them with
their bodies http://youtu.be/xYxawA7ShMk
, http://youtu.be/rqmeePKpMSk , http://youtu.be/ZAWVs_ZctBM , http://youtu.be/MEp5z6HrMPI Earlier,
activist tells the camera: we informed him that we have 25 bodies we need to pull
out, and he said we will call the Red Cross http://youtu.be/mhhf4K86avo Assad
loyalists prevent the monitors from crossing into Bayadah http://youtu.be/8BEaLzTtJcQ
One of the
locals address the visiting monitors in English and asks them to stay http://youtu.be/8Iyr_epouVY
Local
activist Khalid Abou Salah stops the monitors and invites them for a meeting in
one of the local homes, the lead monitor tells him that UN is neutral and cannot
report any propaganda, but that he is willing to meet http://youtu.be/DAzCgdChwB8 During the
meeting, local FSA leader, Abdurazzak Tlas, tells the visiting monitors that they
are under the protection of his unit even if 50 of them showed up so long as
they stay in their neighborhoods, but, he said, they cannot protect them if they
stayed at the hotel http://youtu.be/2DdRJ3yrX7c
Tlas escorts
the Monitors on their tour of the neighborhoods http://youtu.be/CFsEvgGPcgQ At point,
the crowd get fire at, but they keep walking http://youtu.be/SHbExntfRF8 Local
activist Sarout asks locals to protect the monitors with their bodies http://youtu.be/a5Wm0q2Yx78 Monitors
inspect the damage done to the neighborhood http://youtu.be/uec_meRE9Qk , http://youtu.be/HW3nBSGFN1o
Mothers of
martyrs complain, and locals tell the monitors that the pounding will resume
the moment they leave http://youtu.be/fpxYerYZSR4
Monitors
tour the local hospital http://youtu.be/50cbR4PCoXg
The monitors in Jouret Al-Shayah http://youtu.be/DQaS6eGlTb8
In the neighborhood of Qarabbis, which did not receive a visit by the
monitors, snipers were busy seeding terror http://youtu.be/TJBNKJHP4SM
Taking
advantage of the calm, locals in Malaab staged a rally http://youtu.be/YwCRF9xrqks The people
in Wa’er did the same http://youtu.be/lXuI1nLN3WM
Jouret Al-Shayah as well http://youtu.be/EhXDFz_1nJY
Now that
they have time to walk around, locals keep stumbling on dead bodies, this one with
the hands of its owner tied behind his back seem to belong to someone who has been
burnt alive http://youtu.be/BRm3R8VYQtU
In Qusayr,
Homs Province, locals locate the remains of a missing local who were identified
by his brother http://youtu.be/uRUVgaLreiw.
The man has been looking for his brother for 2 months, now that he found him,
he collects his remains in a trash bag http://youtu.be/STh2K9YlfaQ
and leaves http://youtu.be/fvFM5r60LI8
There are 8-12,000 people estimated missing.
More Qusayr
martyrs: an old woman http://youtu.be/Tq1UZRXkS1g
Hama
City, Arba’een Neighborhood: a tanks patrolling and firing at the locals http://youtu.be/4nnV88WJYcg The pounding intensifies at noon http://youtu.be/szvnLHgNaw4 and at night
http://youtu.be/EyznMClQm2A
In Anadan,
Aleppo Province, 5 people were killed in a new massacre by Assad’s death squads
http://youtu.be/ZoBDr3IghO0
In Marei,
Aleppo Province, locals bury one of their martyrs http://youtu.be/d06Wxhtszqk
In Douma
Suburb, Rural Damascus, locals held a mass funeral for two local martyrs http://youtu.be/OW5iKmZL4hg
In Taybat
Al-Imam, Hama Province, locals held a funeral for a local martyr http://youtu.be/m1s839eifM4
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