The Return to Homs Page #4

They raided us at 7 am.

They displaced the people.

They were killing those

who tried to cross Settin Street.

They shot at them and

slaughtered them with knives.

Hundreds d? thousands were displaced.

Only rebels and the poorest

of families stayed...

those who couldn't find

a place of refuge.

Defections from the army increased.

The revolution was now armed.

The weapons that were used at first

to protect peaceful protests...

were now used to protect the

neighborhoods and not surrender them.

Snipers were deployed heavily...

so the safest way to move

was though deserted homes.

Even in my darkest nightmares...

I wouldn't have imagined the city

in this condition today.

The people who filled the streets

with life on a day not too long ago...

whose protest chants used

to drown out the sounds of bullets. ..

They deserted their homes.

They deserted everything.

Nothing interrupts this silence

but the chirping of birds...

and he roaring of bombardment.

Bayada fell into the hands of the army

Ossama is busy supervising

the field hospital...

and there were no news

about Basset for 2 months.

All we knew is that he is

on the front of Cairo Sir...

the point nearest to his childhood home.

Basset!

We should cross

to the other side quickly.

Wake up Basset, breakfast is ready.

Regime TV is here. Get up.

Getting here is very difficult.

We had to cross half of Homs

to get here.

Did you? You're late, man.

This is my gun!

My clear gun.

10-round box and engravings.

But I don't need it now.

The army entered Bayada

through Deir-B'albeh...

They shelled it with mortars to clear it...

All these houses were destroyed

by mortar shelling.

The army wanted to take over this front

in order to proceed into Khalediya.

This is why we took this front and

control the area starting from here...

and ending with Cairo Square.

Further there is another battalion

the army control those territories.

Here we are covered by one wall...

but this road exposes us

to the army tanks...

We made holes in the first wall there,

and in the second one on the inside.

So we can see through both walls and shoot,

and we count on two walls to protects us.

If the first wall got hit,

the second one will protect us.

Thus, we can hold out in a skirmish

with regime soldiers.

In case of mortar shelling,

we have to retreat to ground floor...

cos' the roof could collapse.

We stay on the ground floor

as they are shelling...

because we are not prepared

for such an attack...

Thank God I did not shoot.

It was a woman.

Like the homes and the streets, we too

get our fair share of mortar shells.

Before losing consciousness, Ossama

spat the blood coming out of his chest.

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