Syria Protester: ‘Friends are Falling on the Ground in Front of Our Eyes’
Activist Mousab Hamdee on monitoring mission: “We don’t want people to come and watch us dying.” (Photo: BBC)
Opposition activist Mousab al-Hamadee was among the demonstrators testing the limits of the ceasefire today in Hama, Syria. Al-Hamadee tells host Marco Werman that security forces started firing on the protesters as they converged at Hama’s Assi Square
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