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4. Child found living among corpses
Thu Mar 15, 2012, 06:21 PM
Mar 2012
STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• The video shows the bodies of a family in Homs

• "Let the world see," a voice says in a video

A child crawls out from hiding, over a body, to reach his rescuers




Rescue of 'martyrs' yields survivor in Syria

By Arwa Damon, CNN
updated 7:46 AM EDT, Thu March 15, 2012


Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) -- Over the past month, video has emerged from the Syrian city of Homs showing killings and other atrocities apparently committed by security forces in neighborhoods that have opposed the government.

CNN has obtained footage that is among the most disturbing yet -- about a dozen family members killed in one house in what appears to be sectarian brutality.

CNN is confident of the video's provenance. The images show a group of nine men crouched as they move across rooftops, then crawl through a hole smashed in a wall to reach a house on a sectarian fault line that runs through Homs.

"We're rescuing the bodies of the martyrs," a man's voice says on the video.

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Story w/ dramatic video:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/15/world/meast/syria-video/index.html?hpt=wo_c1




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