17.02.2012
At least 22 people were killed Thursday as Syrian forces
attacked protest hubs, while prominent blogger Razan Ghazzawi and other leading
activists were arrested, monitors said ahead of a UN vote on the crisis. President
Bashar al-Assad's troops pummelled the central city of Homs for a 13th straight
day, with 18 people killed in central Hama province and four others dying in
the southern city of Daraa, the monitors reported.
"It's very methodical," said Mohammed, a resident
of Daraa reached by telephone from Beirut
"The (rebel) Free Syrian Army is trying to push them
back but it is not equipped and is forced to retreat. Regime troops are taking
revenge on residents."
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group
also said it feared that dozens of civilians had been massacred by security
forces when they stormed a village in Daraa on Wednesday.
"There are fears regime forces carried out a massacre
in Sahm al-Julan," the Britain-based group said in a statement.
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