Stuart Ramsay, Chief Correspondent of Sky News has been tweeting chilling coverage of the current genocide from inside Syria.

from homs to the leb border people making preps to die

huge military offensive expected families saying goodbye to loved ones

i predict a further massacre

FSA say as many as 10 thousand troops deployed outside homs - cant confirm

tanks apc artillery infantry everywhere - fsa all but overwhelmed - counting bullets

fsa attacking across region but feels like a hornet on an elephant

You can follow @ramsaysky here.
 

 
The destruction of a dictator’s likenesses has always proved symbolically powerful, whether it’s a Haitian kid taking a pick-axe to a Jean-Claude Duvalier poster in 1985 or Libyan protestors shoeing the televised image of Muammar Gaddaffi more recently.

It’s been a spring and summer of brave protest in Syria, and a bloody crackdown by the country’s president Bashar al-Assad has resulted in the deaths of more than 1,600. A squad of Madrid-based Syrian expatriates have taken a cue from fellow protestors in the Arab world and offered their own show of solidarity.

No portrait of Assad in a Syrianair office is safe now. Oh, and sorry, trash-bin.