[Baba Amr will never kneel, we will win this] Baba Amr attempted wipe out – 29/02/2012 Baba Amr may be wiped out by the time you finish reading this. But do you care? As in really? You don’t. Because it is not your family. See if I said this was a neighbourhood of yours perhaps […]

Monday February 27, 2012 Avaaz update 62 refugees killed and dozens missing following attempt to flee Baba Amr Families taken last night at checkpoint, 62 men killed, desperate appeal for recovery of ‘dozens’ of women and children missing Regime kills 7 protesters in helicopter attack http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CZnvykD5zY&feature=youtu.be At least 21 killed and more than 40 injured […]

Daily life for Baba Amr under siege: Baba Amr: 27/02/2012 Baba Amr has been cut from the world since 04/02/2012. From electricity, water, phone lines and everything else possible. It is an entire siege. People have been prevented from entering or leaving and prevented from bringing in any humanitarian aid whatsoever. Flour and bread have […]

Monday February 27, 2012 AVAAZ BREAKING NEWS Regime forces launch major offensive on Insha’at, Homs – residents fear the beginning of massacre HOMS — Troops loyal to Bashar al-Assad launched a major ground invasion into the Homs neighbourhood of Insha’at in the early hours of this morning. Residents fear a massacre as the ground assault […]

Sunday February 26, 2012 Avaaz Syria update Baba Amr: “We have not drunk clean water for three days and have only dates to eat.” • Baba Amr residents struggle to survive as regime continues to block water and food supplies • Appeal for urgent medical assistance for 70 civilians injured in regime attack on Bab […]

(Written as a woman in Homs, image used only for emphasis but it is an actual image taken in Syria during revolt) Hi..where do I begin? For the past decade I would be counting the days, hours and minutes leading to any kind of vote to do with the government. The Assad government. A government […]

Translation into English of todays Homs report up to 5pm Syria time, from the Syrian Revolution General Commission [translated and posted here for ease of sharing] Summary of events for occupied Homs up to the hour – 25/02/2012 From the early hours of this morning, the shelling has not stopped over most of Homs. An […]

Friday February 24, 2012 AVAAZ BREAKING NEWS: Desperate Syrians trapped in Baba Amr – western journalists refuse to leave Avaaz calls for humanitarian ceasefire and immediate ICRC access to Baba Amr to be granted Avaaz can confirm that foreign journalists trapped in Baba Amr, two of them badly wounded, refused to leave the besieged neighbourhood […]

Translation into English of todays Homs report from the Syrian Revolution General Commission [translated and posted here for ease of sharing] Summary of events for occupied Homs up to the hour – 23/02/2012 Baba Amr: The shelling continues, for yet another day, on the steadfast neighbourhood. The siege continues for the 20th consecutive day. Interrupted […]

A letter from one of the Karam Alzaytoon coordination heads in Homs: =============================================================== Homs is calling, will anyone answer? From 6:00am this morning the shelling resumed, fierce as usual, on our children destroying our homes especially targeting the activists and hospitals and the centre’s where families have fled to as refugees. The regime is purposefully […]