Syria fighting continues amid global condemnation
- 12 years ago
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Rushing to help an infant struck by shrapnel as pro-Assad forces pounded the Syrian city of Homs, according to new video posted to a social media website. The baby was among those evacuated to a makeshift clinic outside the city.
Others ran for the lives down streets enveloped in dust and smoke from explosions which seemed to be going off in a every direction.
This as the western world responded to reports of a massacre near Hama the day before.
From Istanbul, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the killing of 78 people including children "unconscionable."
SOUNDBITE: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton saying:
"Assad has doubled down on his brutality and duplicity, and Syria will not, cannot be peaceful, stable or certainly democratic until Assad goes. The time has come for the international community to unite around a plan for a post-Assad Syria."
International monitors in the country have so far been unable to reach the village where the massacre took place.
UN Mission in Syria spokeswoman Sausan Ghosheh.
SOUNDBITE: UN Mission in Syria spokeswoman Sausan Ghosheh.
"We've been stopped at Syrian Army checkpoints and at some points turned back. (EDIT) We got information and phone calls from residents in the area saying that the security of our observers is at risk."
Hundreds of UN observers were dispatched to Syria last month as part of a ceasefire agreement brokered by Kofi Annan -- a plan that has many doubtful it will end 15 months of bloodshed in the country.
Deborah Gembara, Reuters.
REUTERS IS UNABLE TO VERIFY THE CONTENT OF THIS VIDEO
Rushing to help an infant struck by shrapnel as pro-Assad forces pounded the Syrian city of Homs, according to new video posted to a social media website. The baby was among those evacuated to a makeshift clinic outside the city.
Others ran for the lives down streets enveloped in dust and smoke from explosions which seemed to be going off in a every direction.
This as the western world responded to reports of a massacre near Hama the day before.
From Istanbul, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the killing of 78 people including children "unconscionable."
SOUNDBITE: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton saying:
"Assad has doubled down on his brutality and duplicity, and Syria will not, cannot be peaceful, stable or certainly democratic until Assad goes. The time has come for the international community to unite around a plan for a post-Assad Syria."
International monitors in the country have so far been unable to reach the village where the massacre took place.
UN Mission in Syria spokeswoman Sausan Ghosheh.
SOUNDBITE: UN Mission in Syria spokeswoman Sausan Ghosheh.
"We've been stopped at Syrian Army checkpoints and at some points turned back. (EDIT) We got information and phone calls from residents in the area saying that the security of our observers is at risk."
Hundreds of UN observers were dispatched to Syria last month as part of a ceasefire agreement brokered by Kofi Annan -- a plan that has many doubtful it will end 15 months of bloodshed in the country.
Deborah Gembara, Reuters.