Syria video dispatch: inside al-Waer, safe haven under siegeWhile Fisk is using the Independent to give Assad's story (with a thin cover of putting the other point of view, and listening sagely while Assad's propagandists tell their lies), it's down to the right-wing press to report the actual savagery.
'In al-Waer, a satellite town on the periphery of Homs city, thousands who fled the earlier violence are once again trapped, with little food and under constant shellfire.
For the past eight months government forces have blocked the entrances to the district, limiting the entry of food and medical supplies.
"There is some food but not enough to eat every day," Waleed al-Fares, an activist speaking from inside the besieged district told the Telegraph. "The soldiers have stopped the food lorries."
There is electricity for only a few hours every day. Winter is closing in and there is no heating, residents said.
Video footage, filmed this week, shows the scale of damage in the district that had until recently had a newly built feel. Every window of every apartment in the high rise blocks is shattered from shell blasts. Fire rages through apartments hit by the artillery strikes. There are so many that no one bothers trying to put them out.'