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June 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
A UN report also accused the regime of using children as human shields.
“Children as young as nine were victims of killing and maiming, arbitrary
arrest, detention, torture and ill-treatment, including sexual violence, and
use as human shields,” the report said.
Syian activists say they believe the loyalist Shabiha militia is among the
security forces surrounding Haffa, which lies in an exposed position on the
edge of the mountains north-east of the coastal city of Lattakia. The hills
are the stronghold of the Alawite sect to which Mr Assad belongs and his
family’s home village is less than 15 miles away.
The town is surrounded by regime forces and has been under fire from
helicopter gunships as well as land-based artillery. Scores of civilians,
rebels and regime troops have been killed in the fighting, which did not let
up on Tuesday despite the arrival of the UN team.
Residents of Houla and Qubair to the south, scene of two of the worst recent
massacres of the 15-month conflict, said Shabiha from Alawite villages
nearby were responsible.
“We are afraid that what happened in Houla will happen here,” said Seema
Nassar, an activist speaking from a village near Haffa. She said regime
troops had taken over the Saladin Castle – a Crusader fortress – to the east
of the town and were using it as a base.
Of the town’s 40,000 people, thousands have already fled to Turkey. Others are
being smuggled out when routes open up, but the stranglehold is getting
tighter. The town is also running out of water, as the main wells are under
regime control.
There were also heavy losses in the eastern city of Deir al-Zour, where
activists said 10 people died after a protest was hit by regime mortar fire.
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