Syria Video Special: Interview of Paul Conroy, Survivor of Baba Amr
Friday, March 2, 2012 at 19:02
James Miller in Baba Amr, EA Middle East and Turkey, Homs, Journalism and Media, Marie Colvin, Middle East and Iran, Paul Conroy, Remi Ochlik, Syria, humanitarian crisis, media, shelling

Sky News interviews The Sunday Times photographer Paul Conroy, injured in the attack in Baba Amr, Homs, that killed American journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik.

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The Guardian partially transcribes the interview:

"The time for talking is absolutely over. Now the massacre and the killing is at full tilt," Conroy tells Sky News correspondent Lisa Holland.

"People brought me half a baby, and saying save my baby. Where is the help? And I have no answer.

"It's not a war, it's a massacre. It's a massacre. There is no power. There is no water. Food is down to biscuits. Snow is falling. It's more than a catastrophe.

"In years to come we're going to sit, and we're gonna go, how did we let this happen under our nose? Once the cameras are gone, I fear for what's happening. There was no restraint with cameras there.

Holland: "What do you think the people of Homs would say?"

Conroy: "Forget the geopolitics--Do something. As I talk to you now, people are dying."

Holland: "How many are there?"

Conroy: "There's still thousands of people in Homs. People seem to think they've all fled. They haven't. Rooms full of people six to a bed. Waitng to die. Waiting for nothing but the moment when the soldiers come in. The shells come through the door."

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