left of their faces. the kind of powder burns you get from a gun pressed up against your face. that s because their murderers did their killing face to face, friday night after a day of anti-assad protests in hula. first tanks shelled the neighborhood, then at about 7:00 p.m., a man in uniform began going door to door. one neighborhood boy watched as a militia man grabbed his friend, a 13-year-old and shot him in the head. the militia men handcuffed one family of children, forced their father to watch as they killed them. i watched the bodies of nine children, he s saying, one with less than nine months old. was he a fighter? he had a pacifier in his mouth. the children were laid in row afro of shrouded figures. with a war raging all around them, the bodies were buried. you can see the makeshift cinder block walls to try to preserve some shred of dignity in death. they had no dignity in life because of what the regime did to them. the regime blames it all on terrorists. we ll
that s because their murderers did their killing face to face, friday night after a day of anti-assad protests in hula. first tanks shelled the neighborhood, then at about 7:00 p.m., a man in uniform began going door to door. one neighborhood boy watched as a militia man grabbed his friend, a 13-year-old and shot him in the head. the militia men handcuffed one family of children, forced their father to watch as they killed them. i watched the bodies of nine children, he s saying, one with less than nine months old. was he a fighter? he had a paciier in his mouth. the children were laid in row afro of shrouded figures. with a war raging all around them, the bodies were buried. you can see the makeshift cinder block walls to try to preserve some shred of dignity in death. they had no dignity in life because of what the regime did to them. the regime blames it all on terrorists. we ll have more on that in a moment. all of this is happening with u.n. observers on the ground in
that s because their murders, reportedly government militias, did their killing face to face friday night after a day of antiassad protest in hula. first tanks shelled the neighborhood. then men in uniform began going door to door. one neighborhood boy said he watched as a militia man, grabbed his friend, a 13-year-old and shot him in the head. they forced their father to watch as they killed them. i watched the bodies of nine children, he s saying. one less than nine months old. did the infant carry an rpg, he asks? was he a fighter? he had a pacifier in his mouth. over the weekend that baby and dozens more were washed covered in white sheets as you see and layed in rows, row after row of shrouded figures. then with a war raging all around them, the bodies were buried. you see the make shift cinder block wall being used to try to keep the rows of body separate to preserve at least some shred of dignity in death. they had no dignity in life because of this what regime did t