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March 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
After launching their assault from a football field to the north of the
district, government soldiers claimed to have penetrated Baba Amr. One
officer said that it was being cleared “house by house.” But the
rebels from the Free Syrian Army (FSA) insisted that they still held the
district after beating off the first assault.
“Until now the regime has not entered Baba Amr (although they are
shelling the area heavily,” Omar Shakir, an activist from Homs who fled
to Lebanon quoted a colleague in the city as saying. “They tried to
enter Baba Amr earlier today and the FSA won the battle.” Troops from
the 4th division, a unit controlled by Mr Assad’s younger brother, Maher,
are believed to have carried out the attack. A second rebel fighter claimed
this unit had suffered “huge losses”.
But guerrillas in the FSA’s Farouq Battalion – the main insurgent force in
Baba Amr – complained that some of their officers had defected.
Civilian activists are now sealed off inside the city. Just before losing
contact with the outside world, one group sent a message saying: “We
are going to be killed.” Avaaz, a human rights group that has trained
activists in Homs, painted a similarly bleak picture.
“Activists trapped in Baba Amr are recording their last wills in
preparation for a full-scale regime assault,” the group said in a
statement. “Activists in other areas of Homs have now lost all contact
with people inside the besieged neighbourhood. Most of the city has been
without electricity since last night.”
For many Syrians, the bloody denouement to the assault on Homs is reminiscent
of the suppression of an armed uprising in the city of Hama in 1982 by Mr
Assad’s father and predecessor Hafez. Some 20,000 people were killed in that
assault that saw entire blocks in the city flattened. Hama, like other towns
and cities in Syria, is once again in turmoil, though fewer have died than
in Homs.
As the crisis worsens, western states are once again trying to escalate
pressure on the Assad regime. The United States has circulated a draft UN
Security Council resolution demanding humanitarian access to Homs and other
cities, along with an end to the violence.
The wording is designed to be sufficiently mild to win the backing of Russia
and China, which have vetoed two previous Syria resolutions. A western
diplomat said that China was softening its support for Mr Assad. “Unless
there is a resolution to directly oust President Bashar al Assad, we expect
them to be more compliant and supportive of the opposition. China is worried
that its pro-Assad stance is damaging its relationship with the Arab world,
especially with the Gulf with whom they have lucrative business,” he
said.
For the people of Baba Amr, however, the fear is that any resolution will come
too late to save them.
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