There is also agreement here that more bodies will be discovered. The UN
commandeered a flatbed truck – they clearly believed it too. The problem,
everybnody here says, is that the unrecovered bodies lie close to the Syrian
army positions and nobody dares venture into the killing zone of Houla’s
silent no-mans-land.
The burning question is this: if these militia were nothing to do with the
government, as President Bashar al-Assad says, how is it 100 men were able
to enter a zone where there had been intensive shelling, commit a massacre
over several hours, and not be in danger from a single shell, rocket, or
mortar?
* Alex Thomson is Chief Correspondent for Channel 4 News. He is the first
British journalist to enter Houla since Friday’s massacre. For Alex’s
reports from Syria, watch Channel 4 News at 7pm.
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