Syrian Rebels Seek Arms Amid Reports of Executions - WSJ.com
clip from article: HATAY PROVINCE, Turkey—Syria's rebel military leader appealed for international support a day after his forces ceded their bastion in Homs to government forces when, according to one rebel commander, dissident fighters "ran out of bullets."United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the Syrian government Friday to give humanitarian workers access to the city, amid reports that the Red Cross was being blocked from entering the besieged district of Baba Amr.
"The images which we have seen in Syria are atrocious," said Mr. Ban. "It's totally unacceptable, intolerable. How, as a human being can you bear this situation?"
Activists accused regime forces of carrying out execution-style killings in Homs following the rebel pullback. The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights was investigating reports of "a particularly grisly set of summary executions," a spokesman told the Associated Press. [read more at link]
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