Syria: escape for trapped civilians ‘now a suicide mission’

He had twice before run the gauntlet, guiding more than three dozen civilians
out of Homs. His family managed to escape the city earlier this week, but
thousands remain trapped inside.

Blizzards and freezing temperatures have all but closed off the smuggling
routes into Lebanon.

Now that the regime’s troops have arrived, activists fear they will exact a
brutal revenge on the district’s surviving inhabitants. “For two days, no
one has been able to come out,” said Omar. “It is hell there. Bashar
al-Assad has no morals. I promise you, he will kill anyone that is found
moving inside.”

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