Mazhar Tayyara, Syrian Journalist, Killed In Homs (GRAPHIC PHOTO)

Syrian journalist and activist Mazhar Tayyara was killed by government fire in the city of Homs on Saturday morning.

Homs, a center of resistance for the Syrian uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, has been under intense bombardment by government forces. Tayyara was killed in a shell attack.

Below, see a photo of Tayyara's body being carried by mourners. WARNING: the picture is graphic.

"He was trying to help some people wounded in the bombardment when a second volley of shells fell and he was hit," a friend said. Tayyara sustained shrapnel to several parts of his body, and died hours later at a hospital.

He was a stringer for the Agence France-Presse, and provided video footage for The Guardian and Germany's Die Welt. His work has also appeared on CNN and Al-Jazeera. Tayyara had started participating in protests and helping foreign journalists, who are banned from Syria, last April.

The Committee to Protect Journalists issued a statement mourning his death on Wednesday. "We offer our condolences to the family and friends of Mazhar Tayyara," said Mohamed Abdel Dayem, the organization's Middle East and North Africa program coordinator. "The Syrian conflict is growing increasingly dangerous for all kinds of journalists, from citizens who have taken the role of documenting unrest in the country to international journalists who report from the frontlines."

Tayyara is the fourth journalist who has died in Syria over the past four months, according to CPJ.

Tayyara's body being carried by mourners.

Comments

[escholar]

07:26 AM on 02/10/2012

Fight Or Protest -
People in many countries in the world have their legitimate grievances, but no one must ever start a fight they cannot win by themselves, without any outside help. Outside help is never guaranteed. You may get it or you may not get it or you may get it too late. Peaceful protests, strikes and boycotts against dictatorships are risky and can be deadly, but the price in blood is lower than armed confrontation.
People have to decide whether they can bring about change peacefully, with some fatalities like in Egypt, Ukraine and Tunisia or militarily, with far more fatalities, like in Libya. If they choose the military option, they must ask themselves, can they fight and win militarily by themseves, without outside help?
Just because the government kills a few peole in the early stages of the protest is not reason enough to turn the peaceful protest into an all-out war, you cannot win militarily by yourself. What if the help or support you expect never comes after you have already started a war? Peaceful protesters all over the world have been killed before, but the protests remained peaceful, until their demands were met.
In Libya, the rebels or opposition started a war they could not win, but fortunately Nato came to their aid. What if Nato never showed up? And what if no one came to help the rebels or opposition in Syria?

- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30427.htm

[DUSAA-1775]

06:32 AM on 02/10/2012

Wow. Two armed groups are fighting and some one gets killed? I am shocked.

[SSGreyalexandro]

01:06 PM on 02/10/2012

One group is the government with 90% of the military on the side of the dictator , you do the math

[DUSAA-1775]

02:54 PM on 02/10/2012

I already did the math... some one gets killed.... I am mathematically shocked...shocked I tell you.

[Ezra Benny Horowitz]

06:13 AM on 02/10/2012

May G-d rest his soul.

[OliverTwist]

05:17 AM on 02/10/2012

Everyone who gets killed in this conflict is a victim.

There are over two thousand government soldiers and journalist­s and civilians who have been slaughtere­d in attacks by the insurgent troops and as many or more insurgents of the same kinds who have slaughtere­d in attacks by the government troops and no doubt some foreign agents as well.

Each and every one of them has a touching story of a life they and others cherished.

That is the trouble with these propaganda campaigns. They are attempts to rationaliz­e the very processes of warfare and murder that they exploit to create the rationaliz­ations of further violence.

They also seek to exploit the ever increasing death toll to set off the emotional triggers that allow leaders to ramp up the level of violence that people will support.

This is may very well be all about a calculated US and EU campaign for regime change intended to establish more controlled conditions for a war against Iran.

There is good reason to think that the leaders of our nations are up to no good - and that ultimately we will all be paying the price for their schemes and hubris.

[kkdkdkdkdk]

05:10 AM on 02/10/2012

Pathetic sociopaths turning on their own people. And the UN is worthless. The world watches and waits for America to do something. But we won't do anything. Been there and done that. This is for the Muslims to deal with. What a crying shame we live in such a depraved world.

[Kald]

04:28 AM on 02/10/2012

"WARNING: the picture is graphic."

What? Methinks people need a lot more graphic pictures to realize what it means to start new wars all the time and how necessary it is to stop the ones that are ongoing.

[guardstar360]

03:45 AM on 02/10/2012

Whoever, owing allegiance to Syria, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the Syria or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office in Syria.

[viko]

03:22 AM on 02/10/2012

China, Iran, Syria, = MAN IN REBELLION AGAINST THE WILL OF GOD.
Maybe the word JUDGEMENT means being clear what side people are on.
The DECISION is much easier now to support Gods will and
bring this African Spring right on into the summer.
Back in the USA all you hear is who should wear condoms and Homosexuality has become a new gender in DC. Rich Guys argue with rich guys about who will occupy.
Syria, well Bo boo we took the fork in the road with this hot potato.
Look at it this way The Germans should invade and overcome the Hitler taboo, Considering The Arab league were last to go against Gaddafi and the first to unite against Assad. Obama was the Guy in Benghazi and Sarkozy was all in with Cameron.
Time for Hillary to crack the whip.

[Roelvdwegen]

02:09 AM on 02/10/2012

As long as this is the only kind of photo's the general public sees they will never fully understand what is happening there.

Just this morning i came across a photo of a guy who was missing his jaw, it had been shot to pieces.

[JFetch]

01:08 AM on 02/10/2012

Anyone that thinks there is a graphic photo on this page must be terrified to watch their local news, or leave their house.

[persiankat]

12:28 AM on 02/10/2012

Wake up HP moderator. Why are you posting comments so slowly. It has been 6 pending comments for 10 mins now.

[USA2Sense]

12:17 AM on 02/10/2012

A good man - who evidently had the integrity and courage to stand up and be counted - for his principles....

May he Rest in Peace......

[tonyaxsmithey]

10:55 PM on 02/09/2012

Egupt worked out so well for Blowbama, let him put his foot in this one.

[Ron in NYC]

11:54 PM on 02/09/2012

Why? To stoop to your level?

[Newthron]

12:15 AM on 02/10/2012

He doesn't have a level. He is leveled..

[gunnergoz]

11:56 PM on 02/09/2012

He won't be the last victim of the Assad regime. RIP.

[persiankat]

12:22 AM on 02/10/2012

Maybe he wasn't a victim. Maybe he fought for what he believed and got killed by somebody who was fighting for what he believed.

[Reginald Reaves]

10:43 PM on 02/09/2012

Thats a graphic photo? ::rolling my eyes::

[Ron in NYC]

11:50 PM on 02/09/2012

C'mon! It's Huff Post, not the National Inquirer.

[ArnoldHorshack]

10:38 PM on 02/09/2012

I see no graphs