Blog - Syria: Indiscriminate attacks kill, terrorize and displace civilians

Headline Title: Blog - Syria: Indiscriminate attacks kill, terrorize and displace civilians 14 September 2012 [This blog was originally published in The Telegraph] By Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International's Senior Crisis AdviserEleven-year-old Ahmad Hamdo lay still on a stretcher on the floor of the hospital.Moments earlier he’d died from shrapnel injuries to the abdomen and pelvis. In the same room, doctors were desperately trying to save a little girl with bad head injuries. Her father was holding her hand, murmuring “my darling daughter stay with me”. She…

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