Huge assault overnight in Syrian city

[tabatha]

Security forces and pro-government militias in Syria assaulted neighborhoods overnight in the flashpoint city of Hama, an opposition activist group reported Wednesday. The Local Coordination Committees of Syria said the forces, backed by military vehicles and armored tanks, assaulted various locations in Hama — one of the major bastions of Syria’s anti-regime sentiment.

The forces bombed the Bab Qebli area “from all directions” and destroyed several buildings the LCC said. Several deaths and injuries were reported, according to the activist opposition group, and the constant shelling made it impossible to rescue the wounded in the western city.

Soldiers also launched mortar shells in several neighborhoods, including those of al-Hamidiya, al-Faraya, Jarjameh and Alalillat. Explosions and gunfire rang across the city and soldiers fired rocket-propelled grenades and nail bombs at houses, the LCC said.

Hama is the site of the notorious 1982 crackdown by the government of Hafez al-Assad, the father of the current president, Bashar al-Assad.

http://mar15.info/2012/01/huge-assault-overnight-in-syrian-city/

It is getting harder and harder to read about what is going on in Syria.

[riverwalker]

1. the evil of Assad

is difficult to comprehend using words, and the photos are too gruesome to post.
The world cannot continue to turn up the radio to drown out the screams. They are getting louder.