Check the right of this photograph in this FRONTLINE report, blood is literally running in the street.
FRONTLINE
Video of wounded journalists Edith Bouvier and Paul Conroy
Drawn from 369 interviews with victims, witnesses, defectors and individuals with “inside information” about the conflict, as well as analysis of satellite imagery, photos and videos that corroborate their accounts, the report states:
The commission received credible and consistent evidence identifying high- and mid-ranking members of the armed forces who ordered their subordinates to shoot at unarmed protesters, kill soldiers who refused to obey such orders, arrest persons without cause, mistreat detained persons and attack civilian neighborhoods with indiscriminate tank and machine-gun fire. In some cases, they gave explicit orders to commit crimes, in others they used more general terms (e.g. “use any force necessary”) that, in the circumstances, left no room for interpretation. The commission verified that, in some locations, individual army officers ordered the indiscriminate shelling of civilian neighborhoods in urban areas such as Hama, Al Ladhiqiyah, Dar’a and Homs.
NYTimes: Images of anger and despair from Homs
in the Baba Amr neighborhood, an English-speaking activist showed the camera the body of a 2-year-old boy, and part of the rocket said to have killed him, and asked: “Is this what the U.N. is waiting for? Is this what the U.N. is waiting for, till we have no more children left? Till they kill all the children, kill all the women?”
I have no righteous words and no idea what is the next course of action to stop this massacre. The news of it 'hurts my heart' and so I want to share the pain in order to find some small relief. We need to be aware of what is happening in Homs and hopefully follow it with a demand for cease fire to allow the International Red Cross to assist the wounded .