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tabatha

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Tue Mar 6, 2012, 10:50 AM Mar 2012

Syrian Army 'Bombed Bridges Used By Refugees Fleeing Into Lebanon'

The Syrian government has bombed bridges as they were being crossed by wounded refugees fleeing from Homs to Lebanon, activists have reported. According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the al-Qusayr bridge in Homs was bombed on Tuesday.

"[The bridge] is used by refugees and the wounded fleeing to Lebanon," said Rami Abdel Rahman of SOHR, to the AFP news agency.

The Avaaz activist network quoted an activist known a Ahmed in the town of Alqaseer as saying another bridge near to the Lebanese border had been bombed. He said: "Snipers are shooting at anyone they see. The military is tightening its hold over the city.

"Two days ago they bombed a bridge that connects the Alqaseer areas with other western areas. The army also shelled another bridges in the village of Rabla. "All access is blocked off and more checkpoints are being erected. Any person is arrested and movement is increasingly difficult."

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/03/06/syria-refugees-bombed-crossing-into-lebanon_n_1323290.html?just_reloaded=1

English Speakers to Help The Syrian Revolution
Whichever way this ends.... the tens of thousands of men who started out as criminals and turned from sociopaths to psychopaths... revealed in the horrors perpetrated every day, are a massive problem for the future Syrian Government and society. Psychologically there are now dangerously damaged 'people' .... as is seen to this day in Germany, with communities which still have very high levels of rape that can be traced back through decades... and the massively high murder, rape and crime rates seen in South Africa. That this needed to be ended months ago, back in July and August is an indictment on the International Community for lack of action over months.... the increasing trail of destruction was completely predictable from this barbarous government response that has no basis in humanity and constantly bases itself on lies, with little reference to reality, ..... beware all those countries that think stability is autocratic dictatorship....check the murder rates, particularly of girl babies, in China.... The lessons of Syria that must be learned date a long way back, and early warning signals must be seen and acted on by the international community if we are ever to get to NEVER AGAIN. Sadly, two prime candidates for this collapse of humanity are permanent members of the UNSC.

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