Massacres continue as Syrians fight for freedom
By Dan Katz A series of reports have come through Syrian opposition groups suggesting that the regime has massacred scores of soldiers attempting to defect and flee to neighbouring Turkey. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in London, told the BBC on 21 December that at least 111 had been killed in an "”organised massacre” in Idlib province in north west Syria. Defectors were machine gunned. Survivors were then hunted down and killed, together with civilians who were sheltering them. One Lebanese-based activist from the campaign Avaaz suggests that up to 3000 defectors are in the...