Readers will find this picture shocking... but they illustrate the depth of revulsion at Assad's massacre of the innocents

On a bedroom floor, the bodies of Syrian children lie like discarded dolls. The eyes of some are still open and, hauntingly, their expressions are frozen in fright.

No older than eight, a blood-soaked girl wearing a headscarf and pink diamante belt, is face to face with a younger boy. 


Around them, a dozen others, some with their arms outstretched, lie shoulder to shoulder.

All were massacred on Friday, claim activists, when thugs loyal to President Bashar Assad swept through towns and villages in the country’s central province of Homs.          Read More