summary executions perpetrated
after the rebel fighters
pulled out
.
Meanwhile, accounts have been emerging of life and conditions in Baba Amr under the Syrian shelling. A Spanish journalist, Javier Espinosa, was one of those trapped there. He told the BBC about their dramatic escape trying to pass government lines after nightfall.
"If there is a simple noise, they
detect
your presence, they start shooting, and this is what happened. There were a group of kids who were terrified, and they were (yes) saying "mummy, mummy, mummy". We tried to (yes) tell them "Please don't, don't." But it was too late, and they start[ed] shooting, so we had to run for our life, everybody (yes) in one direction to hide. I guess some people died because they were wounded. They could not move very quickly because they were very badly wounded."
Two French journalists, Edith Bouvier and William Daniels, who were smuggled out of Homs by Syrian activists, have now returned to France. Edith Bouvier was seriously injured in the same bombardment that killed the American journalist Marie Colvin and the French photographer Remi Ochlik.
The top religious council in Afghanistan has demanded those responsible for burning copies of the Koran on a Nato base should be tried in public and punished. The religious council said apologies would never be enough. The incident has led to several deaths.
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