By Laila Azzeh
AMMAN – Calling for an international intervention to stop the “massacres” against civilians in their homeland, several Syrians gathered in front of the UN headquarters in Amman on Saturday.
Chanting anti-regime slogans, the protesters called for an end of Baath regime rule and highlighted its “brutal” actions against civilians, beginning with the 1982 Hama masscare.
“The Syrian army was ordered by the regime to conduct a scorched-earth policy against Hama to suppress a revolt by the regime’s opponents,” one woman, who preferred to remain anonymous, told The Jordan Times during yesterday’s protest.
She recounted how her mother was tortured and taken to prison.
