food and supplies running out. medical care impossible. this is the story of the cnn team that got into syria s most dangerous city. to reach a handful of citizens risking their lives every day. to see firsthand, to bear witness, and to tell the world about the suffering. the grief. and the courage of homs. this is the account of 72 hours under fire. for more than a year, the regime of dictator bashar al assad had used brutal force to put down a popular uprising in syria. across the country, protesters demanded change, chanting date down with the regime. this is homs, bob aba amr. you can see over there, another rocket landed on a civilian s house. the city of homs became the beating heart of a growing uprising, but the syrian military sealed off one neighborhood, baba amr, as it tried to crush the revolt. the assad regime is shelling relentlessly these neighborhoods. there are snapers pged in areas that are killing people if they try to leave their homes. this is
homs. syria, a people under siege. this speaks for itself. bombarded for months. kicked off by snipers. food and supplies running out. medical care impossible. this is the story of the cnn team that got into syria s most dangerous city. to reach a handful of citizens risking their lives every day. to see firsthand, to bear witness, and to tell the world about the suffering. the grief. and the courage of homs. this is the account of 72 hours under fire. for more than a year, the regime of dictator bashar al assad had used brutal force to put down a popular uprising in syria. across the country, protesters demanded change, chanting date down with the regime. this is homs, baba amr. you can see over there, another rocket landed on a civilian s house. the city of homs became the beating heart of a growing uprising, but the syrian military sealed off one neighborhood, baba amr, as it tried to crush the revolt. the assad regime is shelling relentlessly these neighborho
homs. syria, a people under siege. this speaks for itself. bombarded for months. kicked off by snipers. food and supplies running out. medical care impossible. this is the story of the cnn team that got into syria s most dangerous city. to reach a handful of citizens risking their lives every day. to see firsthand, to bear witness, and to tell the world about the suffering. the grief. and the courage of homs. this is the account of 72 hours under fire. for more than a year, the regime of dictator bashar al assad had used brutal force to put down a popular uprising in syria. across the country, protesters demanded change, chanting date down with the regime. this is homs, bob aba amr. you can see over there, another rocket landed on a civilian s house. the city of homs became the beating heart of a growing uprising, but the syrian military sealed off one neighborhood, baba amr, as it tried to crush the revolt. the assad regime is shelling relentlessly these neighbo
the 45 who were reported dead. as always, we can t independently verify the claims of the video, but today at least we got a kind of confirmation from syrian state media. it, too, broadcast the victim ofs in homs. normally they limit themselves to footage of funerals of police officers and security forces. now at least it is showing civilian victims, but on syrian state television, they blame those killings on so-called armed terrorist groups. it s a narrative we ve heard over and over again from the regime. the military has taken control of the neighborhoods in homs. the pictures you saw may, in fact, support that assessment. in his meeting, kofi anan, the syrian dictator stuck to the story that the violence is being committed by armed terrorist gang, insisting his regime is not slaughtering civilians. despite that, and despite grim accounts from the u.n. s own people, annan found some reason for hope for optimism. they want peace, they want to move on with their lives.
normally they limit themselves to footage of funerals of police officers and security forces. now at least it is showing civilian victims, but on syrian state television, they blame those killings on so-called armed terrorist groups. it s a narrative we ve heard over and over again from the regime. the military has taken control of the neighborhoods in homs. the pictures you saw may, in fact, support that assessment. in his meeting, kofi anan, the syrian dictator stuck to the story that the violence is being committed by armed terrorist gang, insisting his regime is not slaughtering civilians. despite that, and despite grim accounts from the u.n. s own people, annan found some reason for hope for optimism. they want peace, they want to move on with their lives. but keeping them hoens, annan s assessment treats the violence as if it came out of nowhere, that it just somehow happened to the syrian people. it is not just happening. the regime is making it happen. the violenc