You have heard the stories on the news — Syrian cities are being besieged, and civilians are dying in droves at the hands of their own government.
Last week, a U.S. journalist and a French photographer were killed while covering the violence in Homs. Despite the Syrian government’s refusal to allow independent international human rights monitors into the country, Amnesty International is on the Syrian border, collecting stories for the world to hear.
Amnesty’s Syria campaigner Maha talked with a group of women from the village of Tasil, including a young mother:
“One day before we left Tasil I was looking out from the window and saw security forces chasing a man in the farms near the village. They were shooting at him and I thought no doubt they would kill him. When I looked closely I realized that that man was actually my husband. Thank God he managed to escape.”