Saturday, 5. March 2011
Topic: War and Peace News - on March 5, 2011 at 9:31:00 AM CET
Ahmed - a resident of Az Zawiyah -
speaks to Al Jazeera on the phone from the middle of the ongoing battle. Shouting to be heard over the sound of artillery and small arms fire, he tells us:
There is heavy bombing of the city by tanks and heavy weapons and mortars - the rebels are struggling to resist with very primitive means. They [invading forces] have no mercy and are very brutal. There is a large number of injured and a lot of people killed on the streets.
There is no mercy to civilians. The tanks belonging to to the regime are attacking everything indiscriminately and we have no means of defending ourselves.
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