[GRAPHIC] Homs: Summary from Thursday, October 20, 2011

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Homs: Summary from Thursday, October 20, 2011

From the heat of Misrata… Homs gets hotter!
Despite the bullets, the injuries, the arrests, the miserable conditions,
and while the residents of Homs are washing the streets with their blood,
Homs gets more medals of honor for all it is going through. The gunfire has
been going on all day in Al-Khaldiyeh, Al-Bayada, Al-Nazeheen, Al-Seteen
street, and some towns around Homs. There number of those wounded was
greatest in Heet, Sakarja, Al-Burhaniyeh, and Al-Qusayr. There are more than
20 missing and 6 confirmed martyrs today from different areas. The martyrs
are Walid Harfoush, Muhammad Deeb Othman, 3 from Al-Hameed family, and a
woman from Deir Balba. The exact numbers are difficult to confirm because of
the inability to move around or communicate. There were home raids and
arrests in Deir Balba this morning amid gunfire, and some of the
neighborhood homes were destroyed. In Karm Al-Zeitoun, explosions and
gunfire were heard all day, and in each of Bab Al-Sbaa, Bab Houd, Bab
Al-Draib, and Baba Amro, checkpoints continue on firing in and at the
neighborhoods.

The remnants of the woman killed in Deir Balba after the shelling:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMsPJNUJD1w

Tanks in Al-Holeh today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpuu8UwRZew

The funeral of one of the Homs martyrs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg1IzDGxpeE

The Faculty of Petro-chemistry in Deir Balba is turned into a military
barrack:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rynd36gcbTs

Signs of the shelling in Deir Balba:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCgLXFi_FYA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMNOKnxVxmI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1S1zcp-qb0

Al-Qusayr and surrounding towns…farms, homes, and residents
The Assad forces and thugs continued surrounding Al-Qusayr and some of the
surrounding towns. Today, the Assad forces raided some of the farms and
destroyed their crops, and arrested many of the residents. More than 50
armored vehicles, 30 soldier-carrying trucks, and a large number of
accompanying car are currently in Al-Qusayr. Some homes went up in flames
and others were destroyed in Al-Qusayr and surrounding towns. Some of the
Assad forces were also deployed to the towns of Al-Dabaa and Al-Bayoda
Al-Sharqiyeh. The towns are now surrounded, and with power outages and
severed communications. Conditions are very difficult, roads to the towns
are blocked, and moving within the towns is near impossible. This operation
against Al-Qusayr and surrounding towns is still going on and conditions are
miserable. In addition, reports and news are nearly impossible to obtain.

Conditions continue to be miserable in Homs, with the sounds of pain rising
above the bullets so the world may take notice. The women of Baba Amro and
other neighborhoods in Homs went out demonstrating today before its men, the
students demonstrate during the day, and the young men go out at night, all
of them asking the world to break the silence. Here are some example videos
from around Homs today.

Baba Amro | Women’s demonstration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ5euTQKElI

Al-Holeh | Evening demonstration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhuxgUjv3kE

Joret Al-Shayah & Al-Karabees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZXZ_Bat9Uc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1033hlPp2mw

Karm Al-Zeitoun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV0IOytzeIg

Bab Houd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njRgINhshBE

Al-Khaldiyeh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF0x7rbZEjM

Al-Ghouta
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgR-uJG9Qc

Jib Al-Jandali
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs9Am53pF4M

Al-Inshaat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2w1Rw7K_xM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKVygMWM-8Q