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Syria: One picture

Syria: One picture
This photo from Syrian opposition's Shaam News Network shows bodies lying at a morgue in Houla on May 26.
May 23rd, 2012
12:11 PM ET

Take a moment to look at just one picture. These children are lying in a morgue in Houla, Syia – waiting to be buried. We've seen this coming, but no-one seems to know what to do about it. The so-called Annan cease-fire plan is in tatters. We've focused the entire edition of the program on just one topic: Syria. Watch here:

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  1. Nicole

    The horrors of this world never cease to amaze me. My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone in Houla. Give peace a chance.

    May 30, 2012 at 12:47 pm | Reply
  2. Sirya Verin

    Heartbreaking...they could easily be my grandchildren...

    May 30, 2012 at 12:51 pm | Reply
    • The magnificent M

      thank you for your feeling , please don't stop talking about them .

      May 30, 2012 at 1:03 pm | Reply
  3. TheThinker1958

    I forced myself to see some atrocities during the Libyan revolution. Is the only way to understand what an Evil regime do. Mubarak, Gaddafi, Assad, they are all the same, using the same misleading techniques so the World leave them alone to keep oppressing their own people.. When is the World going to react faster and more energetic? Gaddafi got his banks accounts around the World frozen... what about Assad? I haven't heard anything yet. Is all about money to keep their life style as normal as always.

    May 30, 2012 at 1:05 pm | Reply
  4. Name*emkayboru

    This is cruel scenes to watch,justice has to be done for the lives of this kids and many more..spot on christine

    May 30, 2012 at 1:08 pm | Reply
  5. msjakeman2

    I keep hearing politicians say they don't know what to do, really? Libya comes to mind, why not the same? I wonder if it's because it's an election year, and this President wants his job more than he wants to help those innocent babies. The picture enrages me, somebody has to do something.

    May 30, 2012 at 1:32 pm | Reply
  6. Jill

    Heartbreaking....Saudis should be ashamed of themselves for arming the opposition. And please don't tell me Saudis going to promote their Democracy to Syria.

    May 30, 2012 at 1:58 pm | Reply
  7. Liz h

    I'd imagine about 90% of us do not want miltiary intervention in Syria...for reasons cited by many experts. Not just for strategic reasons...there seems to be no will for little acceptable risk ...So there are about ten reasons not to enter into military action, but should they outweight the humanitarian crisis?Why have we not learned from history? the holocust? waited very long to engage milsovic, after a couple hundred thousand had already been killed; Suddam..Stalin.-Charles taylor?

    There has been a genocide occurring there for over a year, and before this past weekend,so many women and children had already been murdered..So why does human life have so little value?..Doing the "right thing" is often hard to do, and especially when the consequences are unknown......but sometimes yo just have to do it...Stop Assad.Lke father like son, thousnads are being murdered and the world should not continue to sit on sidelines...enough talk, and the heck w/ Russis. Russia has and will always be an obstacle, move on w/ out them...
    We have the technology,intell and resources to cut the head of the snake off...stopping this massacre is the right thing to do,regardless of strategic benefits .

    May 30, 2012 at 3:28 pm | Reply
  8. amir

    oh , world shet. we are sleep,sleep,sleep... dead human.

    June 5, 2012 at 4:48 pm | Reply
  9. Gaz

    Who can prove that, the Syrian government is the killer of these children, and also who can definitely says if west attack Syria no more child will be dead. Nine years a go there was a news all the time about Iraq but after they attacking Iraq thousand and thousand of these children have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan have been killed and no one care about them.

    June 5, 2012 at 7:23 pm | Reply
  10. Rameen

    I don't know you, the evils didn't do anything when Zionist regime killed 70 kids in Lebanon in the 2006 war. Now that nothing is proven about who did the crime you plot to start another war.

    June 5, 2012 at 11:53 pm | Reply
    • Mohammad

      you really do not know? oh come on boy! beacuse they are hand in hand in their crimes against humanity!

      June 6, 2012 at 3:38 am | Reply
  11. Mohammad

    I realy can see no evidence and logic why a troubled governmnet should do this to further endanger itself! itr is definitely work of the terrorists!

    June 6, 2012 at 3:36 am | Reply
  12. Mohammad

    hey christian i hate that you are shamefully an Iranian! no you are not definitely!

    June 6, 2012 at 3:39 am | Reply
  13. Wahid

    Truly shocking what is being done now in Syria, I am a personal witness of similar atrocities against the Kurdish people in Iran and now the Iranian backed regime of Asad carries out the same crimes and the world stands by watching! no one should ever forget that the human right values are universal, those people are not less human or less valuable to stay silent in front of their criminal elimination. if the regime claims this has been carried out by the foreigners (what all totalitarian regimes usually do) why don't they allow for an independent international investigation into the atrocities?? why have they effectively banned, killed or refuse to protect all international media and observers so that they could back up their ridiculous claims of foreign hands in their orchestrated mass killings??

    June 6, 2012 at 4:01 am | Reply
  14. شوان

    این عکس فقط این را ثابت می کنه که نه آمریکا نه غرب خواهان کنار گذاشتن بشار است نیستند و به هر قیمتی از اون حمایت می کنند هر چند در ظاهر حرفهای می زنند ولی در عمل حاضر نیستند هیچ عملی انجام دهند چون می ترسند آرامش اسرائیل بهم بخورد شاید اگر سوریه با اسرائیل هم مرز نبود و نفت هم داشت الان مثل لیبی بهش حمله می کردند

    June 6, 2012 at 4:10 am | Reply
  15. AmSy

    Just for your information, this is not the first time that a massacre like this happened in Syria. This has been happening since the start of the Syrian revolution in March of 2011. Shabiha criminals and criminal Assad paramilitary have been killing family after family and countless babies. The civilized world watch silently (with approval ?) for the wondrous miracles that this s.o.b. is doing. No one lifted a finger to try and stop him. The UN and the security council which will go hysterical when a polar bear gets stranded in Antarctica, were at loss of words for the miracles that Assad's army and his Shabiha criminals are doing in Syria. In eastern cultures, silence is the sign of approval. Is that the case here ??? does the world condone the killing of babies ????????????????????

    June 6, 2012 at 5:19 am | Reply
  16. Bashir

    I feel just a very lean wisdom could work in such kind of condition. I wish by my heart Annan has that.

    June 6, 2012 at 10:15 am | Reply
  17. اسماعیل

    با انتشار این عکس ها در سایت ها و وبلاگهای مخالف دولت سوریه می توان نتیجه گرفت که این قتل عام به دست مذدوران امریکایی و مخالفان کشورهای اسلامی است. چرا تصاویری از کشتار شیعیان در عربستان و بحرین و دیگر کشورهای حامی غرب را به تصویر نمی کشید جزئ این است که این گونه رفتار جهت دار است. اگر راست می گویید این گونه نظرات را هم به تصویر بکشید

    June 6, 2012 at 1:20 pm | Reply
    • فرهاد

      یعنی استدلال از این احمقانه تر نمیشه پیدا کرد

      June 7, 2012 at 4:35 am | Reply
  18. jahan

    dear christian
    what is the benefit of killing these innocent children for bashar assad? by sure benefits are more for governments and groups that look for changing syria government. I hate syria government bust really in this subject am sure this happened by others.

    June 6, 2012 at 1:21 pm | Reply
  19. ali

    shame on us, the eyes of all this child was open, but we have closed eyes.

    June 7, 2012 at 4:42 am | Reply
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