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Red Cross Finds 5,000 Syrian Refugees Near Massacre Site
By Donna Abu-Nasr and Nicole Gaouette - May 30, 2012 7:05 AM ET
More than 5,000 displaced Syrians, mostly women and children without food or water, have been found by a joint Red Cross-Red Crescent team close to the site of the weekend massacre in Houla.
“Being freshly displaced from their homes, the people had almost nothing to sustain themselves” when found in the village of Burj al-Qa’i, Sean Maguire, spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, said in an e-mailed statement today. “People were worried, uncertain of their future and felt unsafe.”
The ICRC and the Syrian Red Crescent workers left food, water, mattresses and some medical supplies before leaving the refugees yesterday “in schools, or with local families, or wherever they can find shelter.”
The news came as Japan and Turkey today joined allies around the world in expelling Syrian diplomats and expressing revulsion at events in Houla.
While Assad and opposition forces last month agreed to the peace plan proposed by United Nations envoy Kofi Annan and the deployment of 300 UN cease-fire monitors, violence in the 14 month-old conflict has continued. Russia and China, long- standing allies of Assad’s, today said they continued to oppose military intervention.
According to UN estimates, the killings in Houla, western Syria, left 108 people dead including 49 children. Most of the victims died in their homes and entire families were killed together, shot at close range, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said yesterday, citing witnesses and survivors. The UN said it was an “appalling massacre.”
Much more:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-29/west-expels-syria-diplomats-as-annan-meets-on-houla-massacre-1-.html
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