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Showing posts with label Said activists and aid workers that the Syrian forces bombed again parts of the city of Homs on Saturday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Said activists and aid workers that the Syrian forces bombed again parts of the city of Homs on Saturday. Show all posts

3/03/2012

Syrian forces bombed Homs and deploy tanks in the Middle

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Said activists and aid workers that the Syrian forces bombed again parts of the city of Homs on Saturday and prevented a second day of the arrival of Red Cross aid to civilians who were stranded for several weeks without food or fuel in the former stronghold of the opposition.
Opposition activists said that the tanks of the army, published in the Syrian town of Deir Al-Zour in eastern Syria on Saturday to face the opposition forces there and support the troops and militias loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, which came under attack from opponents after the killing of three demonstrators demanding democracy.
And the outside world proved unable to stop the killings in Syria, where he led the suppression of protests were peaceful at first against the rule of Assad to armed rebellion by dissidents from the army and others.
He accused the activists opposed to the government the government forces launched a fresh attack on the Homs to punish people in the city, which is a symbol of the revolution that began a year ago and the arrest of hundreds of people in various parts of Syria.
The network said the Syrian Human Rights opposition that in an act of revenge forces fired Assad mortar and machinegun fire since Saturday morning on Jobar, referring to the neighborhood adjacent to the Pope Amr, who was the opposition to the siege and bombardment over about a month ago to escape the day before.
She pointed to the network in a statement there were no immediate reports of casualties because of the difficulty of communications.
He said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon earlier that he had received "reports of appalling" for the Syrian government forces operations execution, imprisonment and torture of people in Homs, after opponents abandoned their positions.
The government says it is fighting "armed terrorists" supported from abroad, who stepped down on them the blame for killing hundreds of soldiers and police.
The United Nations says that Syrian forces had killed more than 7,500 civilians since the uprising began in March.
There is growing concern about civilians in extremely cold weather conditions in the neighborhood of Baba Amr still devastating where trucks International Committee of the Red Cross are prohibited from entering.
He said anti-government activists they fear that the forces preventing the entry of the Red Cross to prevent aid workers to watch the massacre of dissidents claim that they have suffered in the neighborhood of Baba Amr, who became a symbol of the uprising has been going in against al-Assad.
A spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Damascus that the Syrian authorities gave permission for the convoy to enter, but the government forces on the ground stopped the truck because of what it said were unsafe conditions including the presence of mines and booby traps.
Opposition sources said that the Syrian army tanks began to rally in the city of Zur in eastern Syria to support the troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, which was attacked by fighters from the Syrian army free.
Said one of the activists and named Abu Abdul Rahman, told Reuters from Deir Zour old Russian tanks T -54 aircraft and armored vehicles took up positions on the major fields.
He said every half hour or so you hear the sound of shooting from the free by the Syrian army in the direction of the roadblocks, which holds the Security Police and the guard Cbihh.
May constitute control of this Sunni city, located 450 kilometers northeast of Damascus, another major challenge to Assad, who belongs to the Alawite sect, which represent a minority in Syria.
Were used twice, Russia and China veto power to prevent the issuance of resolutions of the Security Council containing condemn Damascus and its demand to halt its crackdown on protesters opposed to Assad. Russia has accused Western countries and China and Arab countries seeking "regime change" in Syria, similar to what happened in Libya.
China urged both Damascus and the rebels to end the violence immediately and to start talks, but said again that it opposes any form of foreign military intervention in Syria.
A statement from the Chinese Foreign Ministry carried by the New China News Agency (Xinhua) early Sunday morning (Beijing Time), "The government of Syria and all the parties concerned cease all forms of violence immediately and in full and without conditions, particularly violence against innocent civilians."
Turkey has said a former ally of Syria that Assad had committed "war crimes" and criticized Syria to prevent the arrival of aid to the district of Baba Amr.
He said Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in a joint news conference with his Italian counterpart Giulio Tertisa "the Syrian regime commits a crime against humanity every day."
The agency said the Syrian Arab news agency that a suicide car bomb went off in a shield in the south, but militants have denied that the explosion was a suicide attack.
The agency said that the attacker was killed in the bombing of a shield three people and wounding 20 others, while residents said seven people were killed.
Said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the British-based fighters anti-lion killed six soldiers and wounded nine in a town south of shield movement.
He also said that seven people were killed in the province of Idlib and around northern Syria, including three killed in the explosion of a roadside bomb and the others shot fired by Syrian security forces.
The activists said on the outskirts of Damascus had been arrested hundreds of people and that Syrian security forces killed three people during raids in which they set fire also in homes and cars. Could not be verified from the reports of independent activists on the one hand because of restrictions on the media.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon explicitly blamed Damascus for the fate of civilians in one of the strongest criticism so far.
He said that "the brutal fighting detained civilians in their homes without food or heating, electricity or medical care, without a chance to evacuate the wounded or bury the dead. People had to melt snow for drinking water."
"This brutal attack appalling larger because the government is doing the same and attack its people systematically."
The Syrian ambassador to the United Nations, Bashar Jaafari, in response to Ban's remarks Secretary-General involving the "language of wounds are close to the rule of defamation of the government of a State institution for this international organization and all that based on mere reports and opinions issued by the circles of Syrian opposition abroad live in the capitals of the Tnesb Syria and hostility to the intelligence reports to other countries, working not only on the regime change in Syria, but a change of the state .. "


Source: Reuters

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