Daraya: Worst massacre since the outbreak of revolt

The child Asmaa Abou al-Laban once raised a banner that read “o Lord, let the revolt triumph before my turn comes”, in solidarity with the victims of the Houla massacre.

However, Asmaa did not know back then that “barbarism” is not daunted by children’s distress calls. Asmaa is not the only victim of Daraya’s massacre. She is among dozens of children and women that joined the “convoy of death”.  

The bodies of more than 30 civilians  some of them women and children  were found Sunday in the streets of the Syrian town of Daraya southwest of Damascus, where President Bashar Assad's forces have been waging a fierce assault against rebel holdouts. The latest deaths brought the toll in Daraya to more than 120 killed in the past week alone.       

The British-based activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 32 dead bodies were found in the streets and they had been killed by "gunfire and summary executions." Among them were three women and two children, the group said.       

Regime forces also used combat helicopters and tanks to pound rebel-held areas in the northern city of Aleppo and the restive southern town of Daraa along the Jordanian border.

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