#Syria government foes criticize UN monitoring mission

Syria government foes criticize UN monitoring mission

Los Angeles Times  -  7:15 PM

Some Syrians say the UN presence has worsened the bloodshed. In a photo from the opposition Shaam News Network, smoke rises from burning buildings in Qusair in restive Homs province, where Syrian government forces have clashed with the opposition. (Shaam News Network / April 25, ...

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Nada Hashem

5:47 PM  -  Public

"Salma was a young girl in Baba Amr whose house was raided last February by the shabbiha – pro-Assad mercenary militias – when that rebel-held neighbourhood in Homs fell after a month-long siege. “She told them, ‘Please, please – don’t you have sisters? Don’t you have mothers?’”, Farha said. “Just leave me, please not in front of my dad.’" They didn’t listen. Instead, the shabbiha strapped Salma’s father to a chair in his own house and forced him to watch as three or four men raped his daughter. “They made him keep his eyes open and watch.”
This is standard practice now in Assad’s Syria"
#Syria #crimesagainsthumanity #assadcrimes

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