Syrian Tanks Shell City Of Homs, Says Human Rights Campaigner

May 11, 2011 5:56:05 AM

AMMAN, May 11 (Reuters) - Army tanks shelled the Bab Amro residential district in Syria's third city of Homs on Wednesday, a human rights campaigner in the city said.

"Homs is shaking with the sound of explosions from tank shelling and heavy machineguns," said Najati Tayrara.

(Reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis)

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Comments

[Sal Glen]

11:30 PM on 05/11/2011

Yawn, nothing to look at Israel is not involved.

[Ryan Magdangal]

02:34 PM on 05/11/2011

This guy is a war criminal! We should do everything we can to help the Syrian people free themselves from this tyranny!

[Cyrus Trance]

03:24 PM on 05/11/2011

Lets let the Syrian people do their own fighting.

[edejan]

01:47 PM on 05/11/2011

Who writes these headlines? This one was completey incomprehensible without context.

[plages]

01:30 PM on 05/11/2011

Can't we all just get along, say, in The World Court, in The Hague!

[Krule]

01:27 PM on 05/11/2011

When does the invasion kick off?

Hope the Pentagon hasn't run out of cash already....

[World Citizen]

04:00 AM on 05/12/2011

Not worth anything. Syria does not have oil.

[TrucosR4Ninos]

01:09 PM on 05/11/2011

USA does this all the time. At least the Syrians are doing it within their own countries and unlike the USA in 5.

[theuniversalcollective]

12:18 PM on 05/11/2011

Palmach Baruch Jamili P.T. 1948!

[ProudNeoCon]

12:16 PM on 05/11/2011

I do not get it:

Obama dropped a long time ally - Mubarak after "he lost legitimacy"
Obama bombed Lybya which was neutral to friendly to US. (after being pushed by France and UK)
Yet Obama is did nothing about Iran and now about Syria. Two counties whose government are clearly not friendly to US.

Why?

[World Citizen]

04:03 AM on 05/12/2011

Why ? I

IRAN has nukes.

Syria has no oil.

Lesson : If you are a leader of an oil producing country, it might be worth looking into getting your country nuke enabled so the West will think twice (maybe more than twice) before waging a war on you...

[angab]

11:55 AM on 05/11/2011

don't believe everything you read. There is always another side to the story

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24591

[nk5otr]

11:53 AM on 05/11/2011

The world's outrage was heard loudly.

Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon condemned the violence and called for "a full investigation to determine exactly how this bloodshed took place". He announced that a U.N. panel was to investigate.

The United Nations Human Rights Council passed a resolution by 32 votes to 3, with a number of abstentions, in which it condemned in the strongest terms the outrageous attack.

The Arab League called an emergency meeting to discuss what it called a "terrorist act".

The African Union condemned the action.

The Organization of American States said "Nothing can justify excessive use of military force to attack, with serious loss of human lives, to a disarmed civil convoy.

Four countries downgraded their diplomatic relations and/or withdrew ambassadors. Twelve Latin American countries condemned the actions. Twenty-one European countries condemned or protested the actions. Twelve non-Arab Asian countries condemned the actions.

Was this the world's reaction to Syria killing over 800 of its citizens for the "crimes" of peacefully protesting or attending funerals?

No, it was the reaction to Israel killing 9 people who were attacking its sailors.

What a world we live in.

[theuniversalcollective]

12:01 PM on 05/11/2011

there it is in a nutshell

[angab]

12:02 PM on 05/11/2011

like pfz said, poor you

[tino2892]

11:15 AM on 05/11/2011

I don't get it. Assad is killing thousands of Muslims. Why doesn't Al Queda wage jihad against them and leave the US alone?

[theuniversalcollective]

12:19 PM on 05/11/2011

not as sexy waging Jihad against other muslims

[Cyrus Trance]

03:27 PM on 05/11/2011

It's called Muslim hypocrisy.

[forbiddenplanet]

11:07 AM on 05/11/2011

Syria shells unarmed civilians.

No UN meetings, no Arab League meetings, no marches in London or demonstrations outside Syrian embassies in Europe, no BDS movement, and best of all, Syria is STILL on candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council.

[ExLibNowCentrist]

01:23 PM on 05/11/2011

F&F

[armed patriot]

10:31 AM on 05/11/2011

Hey, Obama ki77ed Bin Laden.

Can't we agree that all this other unrest is just detracting from our Presidents great accomplishment?

[pfz]

11:22 AM on 05/11/2011

*Yawn*

[repugnicansfearme]

10:25 AM on 05/11/2011

Door to Door searches???? ARRESTING 10 YEAR OLDS????!!!! This SOB needs to go and he needs to go now. Get rid of him one way or the other.

[den1953]

10:19 AM on 05/11/2011

To bad the Syrian people can stock up on goods and then strike the country into action not by murder but by attrition and the shutting down of the nation that attacks its people!