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Subscribe to RSSThe people of Homs have been under siege for weeks. Jonathan Miller, Channel Four Europe reports.
HOMS, Syria – Faced with a daily rain of rockets, bombs and bullets, the people of Homs keep fighting, refusing to yield to President Bashar Assad's forces in an uprising that began 11 months ago.
Their streets and homes have been shelled. They have few medical supplies, no power and very little food. And casualties are mounting. On Wednesday, Syrian forces killed more than 80 people, according to activists, whose claim could not be independently confirmed. But among the dead were two Western journalists.
There seems to be no way out for the people in this besieged city, reduced to rubble and ruin, yet families and fighters share a moment to dancing in the streets for their “revolution of dignity and freedom.”
A French photojournalist known as Mani, whose full name is being withheld for his own safety, has spent time living alongside the people of Homs. Jonathan Miller, Channel Four Europe reports.
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It is ironic that Assad 2 was an eye doctor, but his regime is as brutal as his father's. The reformers are in an
unfortunate situation; however, the Assad dictatorship has losts its legitimacy, let alone its credibility as a
governing body. Democracies around the world must stand by the the Syrian reformers" ----- as they have fought
the good fight. Quoting from The Coming Revolution by Walid Phares And genocide is unacceptable in this new
world
There are hardly words for the casual observer.... Watching a revolution in real time....
The people of Homs and of Syria are a supreme testament to the power of freedom and self-determination. We American's speak of the Revolution, the battles of Lexington and Concord, the Civil War.... We act as if because we share DNA with the people who earned our freedom that we can claim honor and moral superiority for what they did. But these people, the people of Syria, daily fighting and dying for their own rights, their own personal and immediate freedom, they are honorable. They are brave. They are who I look up to, not Americans who just march in paltry costumes and wave little flags. Let us all think about freedom. Let us all think about liberty. Let us all honor them.
Here is the story behind Syria's 1982 Hama atrocity in which tens of thousands of Syrians were killed in a 4 week siege by troops loyal to Hafez al-Assad, the current President’s father:
Middle East historians believe that this is the single most bloody assault by an Arab ruler on his own people in modern times.
Why would we expect any different behaviour from Bashar, the son of Hafez al-Assad?