Hopefully, after screening by security services, some day these men regain their health after what they have gone through. May it never happen to any of us.
Fate of starving Syrian men evacuated from Homs remains unknown
Several of the men, some apparently ex-fighters, describe eating wild greens and even cats in the besieged city. They now face screening by security services.
By Patrick J. McDonnell
February 12, 2014, 5:12 p.m.
HOMS, Syria They appeared like a defeated army, gray blankets draping their shoulders, baggy clothes flowing over withered frames, faces gaunt and exhausted. At least half a dozen had lost limbs; others arrived in wheelchairs and on stretchers. Some wore bloody bandages.
Many dragged heavily on cigarettes, like condemned men savoring their last smokes.
"We couldn't stand it in there anymore," said Wassim, 23, a scraggly survivor seated Wednesday with other men at a glass-topped round table in a once-elegant banquet hall here, now a tattered makeshift shelter on the edge of a war zone. "We just wanted to get out."
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Fate of starving Syrian men evacuated from Homs remains unknown
Several of the men, some apparently ex-fighters, describe eating wild greens and even cats in the besieged city. They now face screening by security services.
By Patrick J. McDonnell
February 12, 2014, 5:12 p.m.
HOMS, Syria They appeared like a defeated army, gray blankets draping their shoulders, baggy clothes flowing over withered frames, faces gaunt and exhausted. At least half a dozen had lost limbs; others arrived in wheelchairs and on stretchers. Some wore bloody bandages.
Many dragged heavily on cigarettes, like condemned men savoring their last smokes.
"We couldn't stand it in there anymore," said Wassim, 23, a scraggly survivor seated Wednesday with other men at a glass-topped round table in a once-elegant banquet hall here, now a tattered makeshift shelter on the edge of a war zone. "We just wanted to get out."
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Fate of starving Syrian men evacuated from Homs remains unknown - latimes.com
