The Syrian National Council (SNC) warned of a "massacre" in Baba Amr in Homs after the Syrian army gained full control of the district following a "tactical" withdrawal by the Free Syrian Army, al-Jazeera reported Friday (March 2nd).
"We call on the international community, Muslim and Arab countries to immediately intervene to stop a possible massacre in the next hours against tens of thousands of children, women and old people," al-Jazeera reported the SNC as saying.
Hadi al-Abdallah, a member of the Syrian Revolution General Commission, said in a telephone conversation with AFP that "regular forces killed 17 citizens, including 12 who stabbed to death, in this district." But information is scarce because Baba Amr is cut off from outside communications and communications that do get through are limited, he added.
Meanwhile, 35 Syrians were killed on Friday, including 10 shot dead in Baba Amr after regime forces overran the Homs, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Rami Abdel Rahman, head of observatory, told AFP that 10 Syrians were "shot dead" in Baba Amr, but added, "The circumstances of their deaths are not clear."
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مصطفى رجب
2012-3-5
O Bashar, you have destroyed the sect before you destroyed the country. Later, you will either escape or die, and we will stay here, and our families from the other sects will come and finalize their issues with us over your crimes. Note that those who kill our people in Syria are from all the sects. We would like to live in security, and we have nothing to do with your crimes; aren't there any wise people in the sect?...I swear by God, while I am in a strange country here, fearing that my Syrian fellow men will take revenge on me, what about Syria when we would like to go to the country? You will depart later and we will be at the forefront.
عصام فارس الزوبعي
2012-3-5
Dear Arabs in Syria, did you support Saddam and the Baathist when they were killing our Iraqi people? Now God only knows that you drink from the same glass. Pray to God to grant you victory over the criminal Baathist regime. Do not forget to support us in eradicating the Saddami, Baathist and Assadi regimes after the victory of your revolution, God willing. Where are the men of Aleppo and Damascus? What a shame!
عمر حميد ناصر
2012-3-5
The regime supporters who have a small amount of knowledge have spread the idea that our war against corruption has come to an end with the arrest of al-Harmush after the arrest of the Colonel Riad al-Assaad and Brigader General Moustafa al-Sheikh. The number of the freemen among the officers who knew the corruption of the regime and the army that kills its own people will increase and they will not be able to buy their silence with a few Dirhams. All the Syrian youth have performed army service and they know the secrets of the army and the corruption of its heads. They also know how the weapons are used, and when the moment comes when we can ensure that no innocent people will be harmed, we will restore our skills to fight the fragmentation that has hijacked the country. Those who claim the regular army are tools in the hands of the intelligence or the Syrian Baathist mafia. We are involved in the revolution and we know the truth about it; we do not sleep day or night without guards around us. All of you are talking while you are outside this revolution; there are those among you who wish to be with us, and there are those who thank God that they are outside Syria and claimed that they were revolutionists when our revolution started. We did not dream of having assistance from abroad from the beginning of our revolution. All our dependence was upon God, and we will remain that way till the near victory, God willing. As for the Arabs, stay as you are and pray for your brothers in Syria; your prayers were a reason behind stopping the bloodshed. Live your lives, Arabs. I wish God would let it be Damascus and Aleppo’s turn soon, but I am sure that if the rivers of blood flow in Damascus and Aleppo, this will not move any feelings inside them, as those are dead people and they will not revolt, whether for honor or for blood.
هبة هاني
2012-3-2
What is happening in Syria unmasked the truth about America, France, and Britain before Russia and China because the Russian mafia and Chinese dictatorship are exposed to the whole world. However, the false claims of the West about freedom and democracy are revealed by the Syrian Revolution and we will not forget at any meeting of these states that there will be no attempt to intervene and that is the best support the system needs. It does not matter for the Syrian regime because what is beyond the meetings and the statements that are empty of any content but public information. One quarter of the population of Israel came from the Soviet Union and more than two-thirds from Russia. Russia is seeking to harass the Syrian Army to the maximum possible extent so as not to remain after the system what the Syrian revolution or the opposition could rely on in confronting Israel. The system fully recognizes this and is ready or may be compelled to take any gamble left if there is a glimmer of hope. Obviously, the Syrian people resolved this situation and there is no place for bargaining after this bloodshed and the balance of forces internationally is going contrary to the interest of the system. However, Russia will abandon them at the moment when it finds that their presence becomes more harmful to the Jews of Israel and its interests in the region than its removal.