#Syria #Genocide - Hundreds Killed, Wounded in #Homs, Denied #MedicalCare

Syria: Stop Shelling of Residential Areas | Human Rights Watch

clip from article: These and other witness accounts, as well as video footage from Homs reviewed by Human Rights Watch’s arms experts, suggest that Syrian government forces were using long-range indirect fire weapons, which are inherently indiscriminate when fired into densely populated areas. The witness accounts were corroborated by international journalists present in the city during the attacks.

The exact casualty numbers are impossible to verify: due to heavy shelling, residents are not able to move around and most lines of communication are cut. According to the Violations Documentation Center (VDC), a Syrian monitoring group, 288 people were killed from February 3 to 8 in Homs. One witness, who had been collecting the names of the victims, provided Human Rights Watch with lists containing the names of 95 people reportedly killed on February 6 alone, 61 of them in Bab `Amro. The VDC’s list contains only 14 names of victims from Bab ’Amro. The witness said that out of the 95 victims, 11 were children, seven were women, and one was a military defector.

According to witnesses, several makeshift hospitals set up in the neighborhoods were overflowing with dead and wounded after the shelling. Medical staff in the areas quickly ran out of medical supplies, and at least three field hospitals were hit by the shelling, which contributed to the rising death to[read more at link]