AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian experts about Sunday dissmissed off doing a massacre immediately after opposition activists said at least 109 civilians were being wiped out within the central community of Houla, among the toughest carnage while in the 14-month uprising towards President Bashar al-Assad.
"Women, babies plus previous adult males were shot dead. This just isn't the particular feature belonging to the brave Syrian army ," Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdesi told reporters inside Damascus.
Makdesi claimed this massacre appeared to be accomplished simply by "terrorists" after combating among rebels and also allows loyal to help Assad.
"They (rebels) had been equipped with mortars and also anti-tank missiles, that is certainly a new quantitative leap," he said.
Houla can be a cluster regarding Sunni Muslim communities 20 kms (12 miles) north belonging to the town of Homs, a new center on the uprising alongside Assad's rule.
The location can be close to your place lived on through people connected with Assad's minority Alawite sect that is actor's being a link for pro-Assad militiamen, activists say.
Opposition activists throughout Homs claimed the hurting started out while Syrian troops and also militiamen loyal to Assad, also known as shabbiha, stationed during roadblocks that surround Houla, let go heavy machineguns in a exhibition while in the community with Friday, killing five people.
Free Syrian Army rebels responded by simply approaching two roadblocks manned through Assad's loyalists, the activists said.
Houla in that case arrived beneath endurance artillery barrage that killed regarding 15 villagers. Members with the shabbiha militia in that case entered Houla from your nearby Alawite towns as well as murdered rates connected with men, women along with babies by way of hacking these or even capturing these individuals at in close proximity range, the activists said.
(Reporting by means of Khaled Yacoub Oweis, Amman newsroom; Editing simply by Janet Lawrence)
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