News are coming out that Red Cross convoy carrying food and medical help for Baba Amr has been refused entry on Friday despite official permission. As the Red Cross trucks are kept waiting in Homes, the devastated people of Baba Amr are forced to spend one more day without basic necessities. This is the day after the Syrian forces gained an overwhelming victory over the rebels in Baba Amr. As per the latest news, no official explanation has been given from the government of Syria for the unusual restriction on the aid agencies.
Incidentally, this is the fourth time in the last fortnight that the International Red Cross together with the Red Crescent Society are sending aid convoy to Syria. They have set up 10 distribution points throughout the country. But the sudden detention of aid trucks in Homes has delayed help to reach to victims whose lives have been caught between the regime's military forces and the rebels since the crisis in Syria began.
Despite threats of crack down by the Syrian forces, several protests march erupted throughout the country on Friday. Areas in Central Damascus and its suburbs have been reported to be cordoned off heavily by Syrian forces restricting movements. There has been unconfirmed death of at least 75 people all over the country.
It is rumored that while aid convoy is waiting outside Baba Amr, Syrian security forces are carrying out house-to-house search, arbitrarily detaining, torturing and even killing civilians. But, Syrian ambassador to the UN, Bashar Jaafari, has categorically denied such allegations saying that his country is being slandered based on “hearsay.”
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