Wednesday late evening German public TV station ARD broadcasted an undercover report from Homs. The presser for the feature is here released - in German:
Due to the circumstance that actually an Arab League observers' team will be more or less guided on a short leash through the hotspots in Syria perfect timing to present the public the dramatical situation on the ground - images the official monitors never will be able to record, that's for sure.
The report started with two dead bodies dumped at the entrance of the city. The activists told the camera team that the regime forces had placed them right there as deterrence measure. The tour led them to sandbag barricades soldiers of the FSA built up to protect the people in Baba Amr from army attacks. One of the defected soldiers is telling the camera team that they received instructions from the officers which were not accordable to the military oath.
Shelled houses and destroyed homes are giving the impression of the real extend of destruction. Live fire is often to hear when the camera team is outside on the roads. In the living room of a secret place medics are providing for wounded, their equipment is improvised but it is a safer place than the state-run hospitals where the injured protesters are risking their lives getting killed by security forces.
From Baba Amr the camera team went to Al-Khaldeeye. Notable is the enormous amount of litter bags lying in the streets. Some crossings are better death zones referring to regime snipers on the rooftops shooting on each and everywhere. Residents are sharing goods with the help of a rope from one street corner to another not risking to get shot.
After a trip to a funeral in a small village outside of Homs the camera team returned to Baba Amr, where they met one of the famous singers of the meanwhile legendary protests. Despite the humanitarian crisis - shortage up to running out of food and fuel - the people are airing an enormous solidarity, being there for each other, doesn't matter how bad the situation is.
The feature ends with the remarkable sentence: 'After all we've seen here one thing is for sure: this uprising can't be defeated.'
I'm relieved that this report came out in a time when the regime's grotesque inscenation of false transparency with the Arab League monitors in a main role began to attract the public in a critical manner. Sure, we all make jokes compensating our consternation considering the images and statements made. But we should never forget that there are a lot of Syrians hiding, starving, freezing, traumatized, wounded or simply risking their lives every day, every hour, every moment.
And we, deeply symphazising with the Syrian freedom movement, are sometimes more exhausted than on other days witnessing all those crimes against humanity and realizing that the bunch of mass murders is still in power. Such features are bringing us the needed energy back to continue our support for the right thing and that's called: Freedom for Syria.
Inspired from the report I like to give you four words on the way you always should repeat while watching or reading questionable or bizarre regime-related news:
You don't fool us.
Try to fool the Arab League. Try to fool the observers. Try to fool yourself and your cronies.
But don't fool us because you can't, ya Bashar.
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