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maddezmom

(135,060 posts) Mon Feb 27, 2012, 08:05 PM Feb 2012

Syria: Red Crescent bid to evacuate Homs journalists fails

Fresh attempts to bring two wounded Western journalists to safety from the Syrian city of Homs have failed, the Red Cross says.

Vehicles from the Syrian Red Crescent reached the besieged suburb of Baba Amr, but left without them.

Frenchwoman Edith Bouvier apparently would not board the vehicles and other evacuees stayed behind in solidarity.

Earlier, Syrian forces launched fresh attacks on a number of towns, reports say, with dozens more people killed.

The Local Co-ordination Committees (LCC), an activists' group which organises and documents protests, said a total of 125 people had died across Syria, many of them in a single incident at a checkpoint in Homs - although there has been no independent verification of this.

more;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17182279

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Syria: Red Crescent bid to evacuate Homs journalists fails (Original Post) maddezmom Feb 2012 OP

Why does this wounded reporter refuse to be evacuated? Comrade Grumpy Feb 2012 #1

No, she needs attention urgently. She probably has seen enough to be terrified of the regime. tabatha Feb 2012 #2

I guess she can choose to stay there if she wishes. David__77 Feb 2012 #3

UK photographer Paul Conroy out of Homs (and in Lebanon) muriel_volestrangler Feb 2012 #4

Syria unrest: France's Bouvier and UK's Conroy out of HomsAdvertisement maddezmom Feb 2012 #5

Or maybe not, again: muriel_volestrangler Feb 2012 #6

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)

1. Why does this wounded reporter refuse to be evacuated?

Reply to maddezmom (Original post)

Mon Feb 27, 2012, 08:16 PM

Feb 2012

They've gone in to get her twice now, and she refuses to go. I think I saw an earlier report that she feared the Syrian authorities because she was in the country illegally, but as a known Western journalist, one would think she would rather take her chances with them rather than sticking around Homs to get blown up.

Or has she joined the revolution? It sort of seems like many Western reporters have.

tabatha

(18,795 posts)

2. No, she needs attention urgently. She probably has seen enough to be terrified of the regime.

Reply to Comrade Grumpy (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 27, 2012, 09:25 PM

Feb 2012

David__77

(23,638 posts)

3. I guess she can choose to stay there if she wishes.

Reply to Comrade Grumpy (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 28, 2012, 03:37 AM

Feb 2012

Aid agencies have repeatedly secured safe passage. Mainstream news sources have also reported that the "Free Syria Army" has blocked access to Red Cross ambulances.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,421 posts)

4. UK photographer Paul Conroy out of Homs (and in Lebanon)

Reply to maddezmom (Original post)

Tue Feb 28, 2012, 06:40 AM

Feb 2012

British Sunday Times photographer Paul Conroy has been evacuated from the besieged Syrian city of Homs and is in neighbouring Lebanon.

He was smuggled out of the Baba Amr district on Monday with help from the Syrian opposition and Free Syria Army fighters, diplomats told the BBC.

The whereabouts of the French Le Figaro journalist Edith Bouvier remain unclear.
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Ms Bouvier was more seriously wounded, suffering multiple leg fractures. Some reports on Tuesday suggested she too had been smuggled into Lebanon along with Mr Conroy, but other reports said she may not have been evacuated from Baba Amr.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17188791

maddezmom

(135,060 posts)

5. Syria unrest: France's Bouvier and UK's Conroy out of HomsAdvertisement

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #4)

Tue Feb 28, 2012, 12:28 PM

Feb 2012

Syria unrest: France's Bouvier and UK's Conroy out of HomsAdvertisement
Edith Bouvier, speaking on 23 February: "I need an urgent operation"

French reporter Edith Bouvier, who was wounded in a Syrian army attack on Homs, has escaped into Lebanon, President Sarkozy has confirmed.

The news came hours after it was confirmed that injured UK photographer Paul Conroy was also in Lebanon.

Reports say they were smuggled out with the aid of opposition forces. Both were hurt in the attack in which journalists Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik died.

The UN says more than 7,500 people have now died since the crackdown began.

more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-17188791

muriel_volestrangler

(101,421 posts)

6. Or maybe not, again:

Reply to maddezmom (Reply #5)

Tue Feb 28, 2012, 04:34 PM

Feb 2012

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002360876

BBC story is now:

Injured British journalist Paul Conroy has been rescued from the Syrian city of Homs, but the whereabouts of French reporter Edith Bouvier remain unclear.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has withdrawn an earlier statement that she was also safely in Lebanon.

The severely-injured Ms Bouvier is believed to have left Homs with Mr Conroy, but there are reports the rescue convoy was shelled.

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