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Showing posts with label French journalist said Edith Bouvier dim it to end its attempt to escape from inside the tunnel Homs Mazam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label French journalist said Edith Bouvier dim it to end its attempt to escape from inside the tunnel Homs Mazam. Show all posts

3/03/2012

French journalist tells the story of her escape from Homs

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French journalist said Edith Bouvier dim it to end its attempt to escape from inside the tunnel Homs Mazam extends three kilometers was used by the armed opposition to carrying supplies to the district of Baba Amr besieged when the Syrian army bombed the tunnel exit.
And broke her leg in the explosion of a shell killed two foreign journalists two days before her escape, and Bouvier left in the tunnel was placed on a stretcher improvised fled while dozens of opposition fighters with the effects of explosions and returned to the neighborhood in which his uncle's destruction.
Buffett said the French newspaper Le Figaro, which was self-employed in Syria, "put one of them put his rifle Kalashnikov me. Then put his hand on my head and followed by prayers. It was not reassuring. Then left.
"I did not know what will happen after that. Do you close the outlet (the tunnel) .. you will enter Syrian soldiers .. I wanted to escape and then I found linked to the stretcher."
And saved one opposition fighters Bouvier and French photographer William Daniels, who accompanied throughout the journey when he entered the tunnel with a height of 1.6 meters on a motorbike and returned them to the Pope Amr.
Buffett said that when she saw the light outside the tunnel so her head was bleeding and had her leg wrapped in bandages was not wearing her underwear is after the stretcher had to leave and added that the opposition fighters stunned when I asked them a cigarette.
One of the fighters and asked her "Do you want to end your days here?" She said "Sure .. if that was after a long life but not now."
Arrived Bouvier and Daniels to Homs in February 21 to join a small group of war correspondents who documented the attack forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad on the city as part of an extensive campaign to suppress the protests resulted, according to statistics the United Nations has so far killed more than 7,500 civilians.
Buffett recalls the day the first since the bombing of the house approached the journalists who live there "when the bombs fell they told us that this cast Bashar greet the morning."
The journalists left the house three-storey house, fearing for their lives but a shell exploded near them as they enter into the street, wounding and killing Bouvier war veteran journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remy Aohleyk.
The scans were examined when Buffett was taken to a field hospital belonging to the opposition fighters and was told that her thigh bones broken. She added, "They told me you need to have emergency surgery Ajlaak. And then began the great escape."
Buffett praised the courage of Syrian fighters to escape as she recalled a trip that lasted a week and said they risked their lives to take it out is to Daniels safety while besieging the fourth year, led by Maher al-Assad of the city.
Buffett has denied allegations that the Syrian government opposition foreign journalists used as human shields and said they were too afraid to leave with a convoy of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent was transporting wounded civilians for fear of snipers.
With the collapse of the tunnel and the approach of the fall in the hands of Pope Amr Army decided to journalists who have become hunted after Syrian television broadcast their forms and risk everything to escape in a car under cover of darkness.
Buffett said "We were exhausted physically and mentally. We had to get out of there."The newspaper did not publish details of the escape, fearing for the safety of the forward to them a helping hand.
Source: Reuters

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