al-Qusayr may have fallen to Assad’s forces - meaning that thousands civilians are still trapped within the city, at risk of being slaughtered by Assad and Hezbollah’s forces. Raising our voices and urging intervention is essential. In the words of Hadi Abdullah, Qusayr-based journalist and activist:

Furthermore, in the words of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:

Homs province: Fighters from the Lebanese Hizbullah have overrun the city of al-Quseir after intense bombardment cover overnight by regime forces, which continued until dawn today.

 Reports indicate that the rebel forces retreated from the city due to lack of ammunition and men, this comes despite the many promises that supplies would reach the rebels of al-Quseir.

The SOHR voices its deep concern over the fate of more than 1200 injured in the city, we urge the Red Cross to enter the city immediately.

Raising awareness and getting various humanitarian groups and governmental outlets to act is ESSENTIAL. To save more lives, and prevent more small, vulnerable towns from falling into the hands of Assad and Nasrallah’s brutal forces, a no-fly zone and international intervention are urgently needed, including supplying the Free Syrian Army with all the arms it needs. 

Here are some useful contacts to contact with this information, to raise awareness:

1. Human Rights Watch:

(PLEASE READ THE LIST OF CONTACTS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE).

In Qusayr alone, thousands have died in a matter of days due to a brutal assault by Hezbollah and Syrian government troops and militants. As the army encircles the besieged town, thousands more are under threat of being massacred en masse, as was the case in Darayya, Houla, al-Bayda and Baniyas, and elsewhere. This is a report by Doctor Qassem el-Zein, who is within the besieged city of al-Qusayr:

‘We call upon all humanitarian organisations.

We have got hundreds of wounded civilians; some in critical conditions.

We cannot do anything to help them due to the lack of medical supplies.

We just want to get them out of the city. We just want safe corridors to get them out.

We have thousands of children in dire need of care, medicines and food.

We have thousands of women and elderly people in need for care and and medicines as well.

We have no flour, no water, or electricity or water.

We are bombarded by fighter jets, tanks and rockets.’

As Assad’s genocide goes on with no end in sight, it is urgent that action is taken. Please send this to all the humanitarian organisations, all the governmental outlets, all the humanitarian organisations, and all the high profile figures you can. I have already rattled off one email to several outlets, reading the following:

My name is Ben. I’m an activist for a free Syria, and a worker at Radio Free Syria, with friends within Syria. Why, you might ask, does a non-Muslim westerner care about the people of Syria? My answer to you is that there is an ongoing genocide in Syria, with hundreds of thousands being slaughtered merely for expressing opinions which their myopic, thuggish dictator doesn’t want his closed, brutal ears to have to hear. Every day, hundreds of innocents are being slaughtered and the world continues to do very little.
In Qusayr alone, thousands have died in a matter of days due to a brutal assault by Hezbollah and Syrian government troops and militants. As the army encircles the besieged town, thousands more are under threat of being massacred en masse, as was the case in Darayya, Houla, al-Bayda and Baniyas, and elsewhere. This is a report by Doctor Qassem el-Zein, who is within the besieged city of al-Qusayr:
“We call upon all humanitarian organisations
We have got hundreds of wounded civilians; some in critical conditions.
We cannot do anything to help them due to the lack of medical supplies.
We just want to get them out of the city. We just want safe corridors to get them out.
We have thousands of children in dire need of care, medicines and food.
We have thousands of women and elderly people in need for care and and medicines as well.
We have no flour, no water, or electricity or water.
We are bombarded by fighter jets, tanks and rockets.’”
As you can see, this is becoming appalling for all, regardless of if you are an armed revolutionary or a defenseless civilian. The original report can be seen posted onto our radio’s Facebook page, here: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=464814896937056&set=a.382885705129976.91927.363889943696219&type=1&theater 
Could I please ask all of you to use any power vested in you to raise awareness of this - via announcements, posts on your websites on social media sites, contacting anyone of influence you can (particularly those in the media), and so on. It may not seem like much, but if enough awareness is raised, genocide may be prevented, at least in this instance.
So far the world has remained largely indifferent to this genocide perpetrated by Assad - but all this could change, with even some support from you and your organisations. I hope this message reaches you well. 
Regards, 
Ben, and the rest of Radio Free Syria.”

Qusayr is facing the same danger that Benghazi faced in 2011, when Gaddafi’s forces were about to invade it. But, unlike in Libya, there are no fighter jets or foreign aid coming to the oppressed people of Qusayr, to help defeat the forces of Hezbollah and Assad.

GENOCIDE is incoming, if nothing is done. The same genocide that Assad is inflicting on all of Syria. It is already underway in Qusayr, and must be halted.

Here is a list of contacts to email: 

1. Human Rights Watch:

Emma Daly             dalye@hrw.org

Human Rights Watch

350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor

New York, NY 10118-3299

USA

Tel: 1-(212) 290-4700

2. Amnesty International: 

http://www.amnesty.org 

To contact:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=523035454422468 

3. Children’s Defense Fund (CDF)

Children’s Defense Fund

25 E Street NW

Washington, D.C. 20001

Tel: 800-CDF-1200 (800-233-1200)

Email: cdfinfo@childrensdefense.org

www.childrensdefense.org

http://www.childrensdefense.org/ 

4. Human Rights Action Center:

Jack Healey: HRAC Director

can be reached directly by:

jackghealey@gmail.com

http://www.humanrightsactioncenter.org/ 

5. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights:

InfoDesk@ohchr.org

http://www.ohchr.org/ 

6. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:

syrda@unhcr.org 

http://www.unhcr.org/

Please send emails and phone calls as soon as possible

Regards, 

Ben, and all of Radio Free Syria.

yallair7al:

***LEAKED VIDEO*** ASSAD’S FORCES TORTURE, HUMILIATE AND THEN EXECUTE AN OLD MAN. (Date & Location Unknown) - They already shot him in the leg. He’s injured badly. AS they hurl insults at him “I will f**k your mother you dog” they force the man to crawl to the side of the path where they can execute him. The Assad thug treats the elderly man as dog as he makes him crawl. The executioner even has the time to answer his phone, seemingly annoyed, and say “I’m busy, i’m busy, talk to you later” as casual as someone would say it if they were loading a shopping cart.

When the Assad thug finally decides to execute the man, with each shot he shouts “This is for Bashar Al Assad! BANG. This is for the Alawites! BANG”

These are Assad’s thugs. This is what they do. Are you not outraged? 

Thanks @Racanarchy 

yallair7al:

***LEAKED VIDEO*** ASSAD’S FORCES TORTURE, HUMILIATE AND THEN EXECUTE AN OLD MAN. (Date & Location Unknown) - They already shot him in the leg. He’s injured badly. AS they hurl insults at him “I will f**k your mother you dog” they force the man to crawl to the side of the path where they can execute him. The Assad thug treats the elderly man as dog as he makes him crawl. The executioner even has the time to answer his phone, seemingly annoyed, and say “I’m busy, i’m busy, talk to you later” as casual as someone would say it if they were loading a shopping cart.

When the Assad thug finally decides to execute the man, with each shot he shouts “This is for Bashar Al Assad! BANG. This is for the Alawites! BANG”

These are Assad’s thugs. This is what they do. Are you not outraged? 

Thanks @Racanarchy 

I think they’re an agressive, radical minority - not a majority. Israel likes Assad, for protecting their borders for so long. They weren’t bombing him, they were bombing Iranian weapons being sent to Hezbollah.

Bombs will always kill ‘some innocents’ when they’re supposed to hit those civilians, you fool. That’s the whole point - this is a genocide. 

Two wrongs don’t make a right. Just because the US government is bad, doesn’t mean Assad is a force for good. They would rather he stayed in power. 

Now, tell me, what part of that is ‘bias crap’?

Recently, it has become abundantly clear that Hezbollah is fighting by the thousands in Qusair, on the orders of Iran - which hopes to keep the regime of Bashar al-Assad as secure as possible. Hezbollah’s former leader has even stated that Hezbollah’s involvement in Syria (which he condemned) is as a result of Iranian pressure.

It goes without saying that Hezbollah is/has been responsible for some of the most brutal massacres against Sunni Muslim Syrians in this conflict - burnings, beatings, massacres, torture, etc. Thus making their argument that they are only ‘protecting’ Shias in border villages seem utterly fabricated and redundant. The only reason the Assad regime has managed to regain any ground at all in the Homs region is due to Hezbollah. In the words of one activist:

“The only reason why the regime is advancing in the Qusayr area is because of Hezbollah’s troops. Hezbollah fighters advance on the ground, while the (Syrian) air force gives them cover.”

So far, Hezbollah has taken heavy casualties in the ground battle for the Qusayr region. However the advance has so far continued, with Qusayr being now surrounded as a result. The regime is clearly planning to commit more atrocities there - it has allegedly dropped leaflets warning civilians to leave, the Hezbollah fighters in the region have committed some of  the most horrendous massacres, etc.

If the regime’s history of ‘cleansing’ towns after capturing them is anything to go by, then atrocities are a certainty. There have already been atrocities. In the words of one activist (who denied any leaflets were dropped):

“What is more worrying than that is that there is no safe exit for civilians. All of us here in Al-Qusayr have been condemned by the regime to a slow death,” added Abdullah, a spokesperson for the Syrian Revolution General Commission, a network of anti-regime activists.
“Every time civilians try to leave the town, they are shot or shelled at the town’s edges by tanks or snipers. We are trapped — civilians, activists and fighters together.”

If civilians are killed merely trying to leave the town, imagine what will happen when the military attacks? And it will attack - first by using pulverising artillery barrages which kill hundreds, then sending in tanks in an attempt to crush the opposition, then committing massacres if it takes back control of the area.

This cannot, and should not, be allowed to happen. But with Obama’s red lines being proved time and time again to be little more than cynical lies, the complete lack of action by the international community, and the surrounding of Qusayr on three sides by Hezbollah (acting on behalf of Iran and Assad), then another massacre is very likely indeed, if nothing is done. Which it will probably not be.

The best we can hope for is a repelling of the Hezbollah/Assad regime offensive. The momentum of their attack seems to be slow but sure, as their casualties pile up across the border region. But the danger of a massacre is still all too real - in fact, very likely. Yet another village has fallen to the army very recently, tightening the noose over the city. In the words of one of Assad’s goons: 

“We have almost finished our work in the north. Other battalions are arriving from the west and the south, and the east is already under our control. The city is caught in the middle.”

Please share this article, and raise as much awareness as possible. It may not seem like much, but if enough awareness is raised, another massacre may be prevented.

The truth hurts, I see…

I believe that the UN investigation lacks any real legitimacy, as none of it was conducted within Syria. Do you want to know why? Because the Syrian government blocked access to the areas in which they used the weapons, because they wanted the evidence to degrade first. 

You’re focusing so much on external factors in this uprising, that you airbrush the Syrian people out of their own revolution. Nobody from outside is waging ‘war’ against an illegitimate dictator (which is what he is, the facts speak for themselves - in every referendum, he gave himself 97% or something, and banned others from taking part). The regime is waging genocide against the people.

You seem like the kind of cretin who believes that any leader who mouths off against the oh-so-evil west and their ‘agendas’ has to be good. Assad is not ‘legitimate’ - he’s never allowed other candidates in any election, he kills anyone who opposes him, and he inherited power from his father. 

I know people in Syria, and they all say the government is responsible, and I communicate with them regularly. so stuff your ignorant crap.