[net-gold] COUNTRIES: SYRIA: Syria Resumes Shelling, Rejects U.N. Rebuke
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- Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:19:19 -0500 (EST)
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COUNTRIES: SYRIA:
Syria Resumes Shelling, Rejects U.N. Rebuke
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Syria Resumes Shelling, Rejects U.N. Rebuke
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR and RICK GLADSTONE
Published: February 14, 2012
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/world/middleeast/
syrian-tanks-resume-shelling-despite-un-rebuke.html
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BEIRUT, Lebanon The Syrian government on Tuesday brushed aside a stern
castigation from the top United Nations human rights official about its
deadly attacks on civilians, calling her assessment propaganda as Syrias
military resumed what one activist described as the brutal shelling of the
city of Homs.
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A day after the official, Navi Pillay, the United Nationss high
commissioner for human rights, offered a grim appraisal of the Syrian
conflict, activists said the shelling resumed in earnest at 6 a.m. on
Tuesday, with rockets and tank shells whistling into parts of the city as
often as every two minutes.
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It was the heaviest shelling in at least five days, activists said,
particularly targeted at the neighborhood of Baba Amr. Videos uploaded on
YouTube showed gray and black smoke billowing high overhead as shells
crashed into the buildings, while the staccato rattle of machine gun fire
sounded constantly.
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The idea of safety doesnt exist anymore in Baba Amr, said Omar Shakir, an
activist in the neighborhood reached via Skype. Scary is all that exists.
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The neighborhood was hit by occasional mortar shells overnight, he said,
with the heavier shells starting at first light. Although some people
managed to flee the heart of the area, it was hard to leave entirely
because it was hemmed in by government forces as it has been since the
shelling started on Feb. 4.
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Food was running low, despite efforts by residents to open a shuttered
mini-market to get what they could. We are under full siege, it is
horrible here, Mr. Shakir said. I have not tasted bread for the past five
days. He estimated that some 60 percent of the buildings in the
neighborhood had been damaged by the shelling.
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Explosions erupted in the background as he spoke. Another activist said
four men from Hama had managed to reach the neighborhood overnight to
deliver much needed medical supplies as well as baby milk, blankets and
clothes. The men wore four layers of clothes to carry as many items as
they could, said the activist, identified only by Abu Omar, his nickname.
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The Syrian government claims it is attacking foreign-inspired terrorist
gangs in Baba Amr, and that the fires are tires set alight to make it seem
like the buildings are burning. Syria has severely limited access by
foreign media to the country, so claims about the fighting in Homs were
impossible to verify independently.
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But with diplomacy stalled, the renewed onslaught seemed to reflect Ms.
Pillays accusation at the United Nations that the Syrian authorities were
interpreting the repeated international failure to end the violence as a
green light to escalate deadly attacks on its political opponents with
indiscriminate brutality and overwhelming force.
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