What can I do ? ......... this is not a rhetorical question ...I too have had enough . ( not of hearing of it but of not being able to do something ) "We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds " from a song by the Eagles.

B/Fwd.........from 2012

 

Interview with Journalist Paul Conroy from the UK.. ( just returned this week ) March 2012

 

"The time for talking is absolutely over. Now the massacre and the killing is at full tilt "

 

People brought me half a baby, and saying 'Save my baby. Where is the help?' And I have no answer.

 

It's not a war, it's a massacre. - It's a massacre. An indiscriminate massacre.

There is no power. There is no water. Food is down to biscuits.

Snow is falling. It's more than a catastrophe !

 

In years to come we're going to sit, and we're gonna go,' how did we let this happen under our nose? '

Once the cameras are gone, I fear for what's happening. There was no restraint even with cameras there.I fear for what is happening now the cameras have gone.

 

Q.: "What do you think the people of Homs would say?"

 

Conroy: "Forget the geopolitics--Do something. As I talk to you now, people are dying."

 

Q "How many are there?"

 

Conroy: "There's still thousands of people in Homs. People seem to think they've all fled. They haven't. Rooms full of people six to a bed. Waitng to die.

Waiting for nothing but the moment when the soldiers come in. The shells come through the door."

 

Conroy describes a horrifying, "indiscriminate" attack on the civilians of Homs, where he was injured in the leg by shrapnel.

He himself is an ex artillery gunner who has been a journalist and professional cameraman / photographer for many years.

He says of the attacks " I can follow the pattern. at 6.30 each morning the shelling starts - it affects the people psychologically . They are systematically moving through neighbourhoods with munitions that are used for battlefields - This is used in a couple of square kilometres. Men, women and children cowering in houses just.... beyond shell shock..."

 

"[There are] rooms of people waiting to die. It's happening. It's not an imaginary thing," Conroy said.

 

Conroy, a veteran of conflict coverage in Rwanda, Srebenica, Congo and elsewhere, said that after one intense barrage he emerged into the street to see no homes left standing.

 

"It was like Grozny. In every one of them houses there were people." once alive, now dead.

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Q - about Marie Colvin, the American journalist killed in Homs.

 

"Marie was a unique person. To work with her was just an absolute privilege. ... Marie died doing something she was completely passionate about. She was in one of the most dangerous situations in the world."

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The interviewer asks Conroy what else he would say.

He has two words: " DO SOMETHING ."

" Someone needs to step up to the mark and DO SOMETHING "

 

Interview with Sunday Times Photographer Paul Conroy ( Youtube )

Click blue link to watch..

 

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ICRC -( International Committee of the Red Cross ) "We are staying in Homs tonight ( 3/3/2012 ) in the hope of entering Baba Amr in the very near future," said ICRC president Jakob Kellenberger. "In addition, many families have fled Baba Amr, and we will help them as soon as we possibly can.

 

"We reiterate the appeal we made several days ago, for a daily two-hour halt in the fighting to allow humanitarian assistance. The humanitarian situation was very serious then and it is worse now."

 

On Thursday Syrian authorities authorized the joint team to enter Baba Amr today, the ICRC said..

Now it is not safe to do so since No Assurance is given ' on the ground '........

 

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There are sites on facebook regarding people's thoughts on Syria - it is up to the individual to form their own opinion and evaluate the pages.

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