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June 8, 2012       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/un-observers-blocked-from-reaching-site-of-reported-syria-massacre/2012/06/07/gJQAxsAwKV_story.html

UN Observers Blocked from Reaching Site of Syria Massacre

(Washington Post) Colum Lynch and Liz Sly - On Thursday Syrian forces blocked UN monitors from investigating a fresh massacre site in Qubair near Hama. Qubair resident Laith Hamawi said his mother and brothers were among the victims. He said he was about half a mile away in his olive groves when he saw security forces and shabiha members converge on the village of about 150 residents from three directions. "I was scared to move, so I hid," he said. For several hours, he said, he heard shooting and tank fire and saw houses burning. After the troops left, he returned home and found the bodies of his mother and four brothers, he said. "We moved through the houses and saw the dead bodies of women, children and the elderly," Hamawi said.

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