Syria's opposition has accused security forces of killing 47 women and children in Homs and urged the UN Security Council to hold an emergency meeting to discuss the killings.
Damaged cars line the streets of the Inshaat district of Homs Photo: AFP/Getty Images
9:26AM GMT 12 Mar 2012
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The Telegraph
Hadi Abdallah, a Syrian activist in the besieged central city, said the bodies of 26 children and 21 women, some with their throats slit and others bearing stab wounds, were found in the Karm el-Zaytoun and Al-Adawiyeh neighbourhoods.
"Some of the children had been hit with blunt objects on their head, one little girl was mutilated and some women were raped before being killed," he said.
The main opposition group, the Syrian National Council (SNC), called for an emergency UN Security Council meeting to discuss the "massacre", which it said took place on Sunday.
"The Syrian National Council is making the necessary contacts with all organisations and countries that are friends with the Syrian people for the UN Security Council to hold an emergency meeting," the SNC said in a statement.
And in a clear reference to Russia and China, the SNC said that allies of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad shared responsibility for the "crimes" committed by his regime.
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State television blamed "armed terrorist gangs" for the killings, saying they had kidnapped residents of Homs, killed them and then made video footage of the bodies in an attempt to discredit Syrian forces.
News of the killings came after UN-Arab League peace envoy Kofi Annan left Damascus on Sunday without managing to secure an accord to end bloodletting monitors say has claimed more than 8,500 lives since March last year.
Annan departed at the end of a two-day mission during which he said he presented Assad with "concrete proposals" to halt the unrest that has rocked Syria since pro-democracy protesters rose up against his regime on March 15, 2011.
On the ground, more than 150 people – 61 of them civilians caught in the crossfire – were killed weekend clashes between armed rebels and regular soldiers in various flashpoint areas, according to figures of rights monitors.
Most of the deaths occurred in an ferocious assault by regime forces against rebel bastions in the northwestern Idlib province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, adding that fighting also occurred Sunday in the central city of Hama, the nearby province of Homs, and in the Damascus countryside.
Annan on his first mission to Syria to attempt to secure a halt to the violence, had emerged positive from talks on Sunday with Assad, a follow-up to their first meeting the previous day.
"It's going to be tough, it's going to be difficult, but we have to have hope. I am optimistic," Annan told reporters, while stressing the urgency of finding a solution.
"The situation is so bad and so dangerous that all of us cannot afford to fail," the former UN chief warned, in response to a suggestion that dialogue with the government was futile.
Assad had insisted during their first meeting on Saturday there would be no dialogue until the "terrorist groups" he claims are fomenting the violence are disbanded.
Opposition figures in their meeting with Annan however were adamant that the regime troops pressing the crackdown on dissent must first return to barracks before talks can begin.
Diplomats at the United Nations in New York had expressed pessimism about the prospects for Annan's mission after troops poured into Idlib city, which lies in the province by the same name, late on Saturday just hours after his first meeting with Assad.
Annan told the media conference that he had on Sunday discussed with Assad ways to halt the unrest rocking Syria.
"I presented a set of concrete proposals which would have a real impact on the situation on the ground and which will help launch a process aimed at putting an end to this crisis," the former UN chief said.
"The realistic response is to embrace change and reforms," he added.
After seizing Idlib city on Saturday, troops fanned out into rural areas of the province on Sunday, notably the Jisr al-Shughur district, said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Britain-based Observatory.
"The army is also preparing to launch an offensive against the rebel district of Jabal al-Zawiya," a range of hills close to the Turkish border, where fighters of the Free Syrian Army have been particularly active, he added.
The military crackdown in Idlib came after the Homs neighbourhood of Baba Amr was stormed on March 1 after a month-long blitz in which hundreds of people died.
Source: AFP
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132 comments
Verka Sadoochka
Today 04:25 PM
" Hadi Abdallah, a Syrian activist in the besieged central city, said (WHILE WIPING BLOOD OF HIS MACHETE) the bodies of 26 children and 21 women, some with their throats slit and others bearing stab wounds, were found in the Karm el-Zaytoun and Al-Adawiyeh neighbourhoods,"
Ben Millet
Today 04:23 PM
"the main opposition group, the Syrian National Council (SNC), called for an emergency UN Security Council meeting to discuss the "massacre", which it said took place on Sunday"
Pretty sick that these people should resort to murdering so many innocent in order to trigger a war to put them in power.
______ hatebigots
4 minutes ago
Pretty sick how you still blam,e the vicitms for their massacres.
Pretty coward how you dont admit the cruelty of your master ASSad.
Pretty pathetic if you think you can fool someone with lame propaganda...
(except for the trolls and fascists send by ASSad to DT...)
Ben Millet
Today 04:22 PM
It seems to be common concensus that the sum of unverified stories coming from a single unverified and unreliable self interested source adds up to a big lie.
_______ hatebigots
3 minutes ago
Too bad that your "common concesus" exist only in your bigoted mind.
Ironic how you fell into unverified stories by ASSad`s propaganda, like the 13 french prisoners (where are the photos by ASSad`s goons?)...
pompeyphil
Today 04:22 PM
The syrian opposition obviously understand very well that there biggest weapon in trying to dislodge Assad is not there weaponery but propoganda. If they can present imagery of alleged Syrian attrocities they know there is a fair chance that they can rouse western public opinion so that the demands "that we do something" become louder and louder. I am not saying that these claims are untrue, but as far as I can see there is no hard evidence of who the perpetrators were (if indeed it happened) I'm afraid that as far as the media reporting is concerned I retain a fair dose of scepticism about what is presented to me.
This is a sad reflection of the modern media that appears to present information with pre-formed narratives. Anything that fits the narrative is de facto true. Anything that does not is not. It is also completely unable to deal with the complexities that these conflicts present, preferring to deal in the goodie/baddie diochotomy. Syria like much of the middle east is basically a society based on tribal loyalties and culture. Common sense tells you that there will always be tensions simmering just below the surface. This is a civil war (internecine conflict is the bloodiest, most vicious, merciless and unforgiving of all the types of human conflict where civilians are always the main victims and targets). We should stay out. Intervention will only muddy the waters of the future and lay down the seeds of further bloodshed further down the line as well as potentially widening it
JamieRodruiges
Today 03:49 PM
Oh no,,21 women have been killed,,,,I wonder what the other 150 people were?????.
teddyjnr
Today 03:36 PM
Daily Telegraph hacks are a pack of lying dogs.
The atrocities unleashed on Syria are commited by blood drenched insurgent Islamic terrorists who are drooling like wolves at the sight of power and the vunerable Christian enclaves they wish to punish.
We support the Syrians in their noble struggle against terrorism and murderous agression.
______ wanderingone56
Today 03:41 PM
'We'?
That would be you and.............. ?
____________ teddyjnr
Today 03:44 PM
Eh...; China, Russia, international sympathisers.
_____________ SamChuckie
Today 03:43 PM
How could you not support a struggle against 'terrorism and murderous aggression' both of which are quite evidently traits of the insurgents.
____________ hatebigots
2 minutes ago
Parrotingbaseless hate speech is not making rational people think that the the "real" criminals are the civilians murdered by ASSad...
Sad nutcase. Thinking is beyond your capacities...
wanderingone56
Today 03:02 PM
As ever in the Middle East there is no clear, irrefutable story. Those who oppose President Assad say that his troops are committing atrocities. President Assad says it is those who oppose him who are committing atrocities in order to make his troops 'look bad'. There is little evidence available to help one decide where the truth lies.
What can be safely assumed is that two parties are at war and, as always, there are innocents caught in the middle and being killed.
I would wish that President Assad allow the Red Crescent to enter conflict areas to help those who are wounded and suffering, to evacuate them and to take them where appropriate medical aid is available. That done, the two warring parties can get on with it as far as I'm concerned.
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