Tortured Syrians carried to freedom 2012-03-14 21:45

Tortured Syrians carried to freedom

2012-03-14 21:45

Tortured Syrians carried to freedom

Kansafra - Four men move deftly and carefully across a field, their silhouettes outlined by the light of a full moon, bearing a stretcher.
Five lives are at stake as they hasten to carry to safety in nearby Turkey a man shot during a demonstration in the Syrian city of Hama against the regime of President Bashar Assad.
"We don't have ambulances, and even if we did we couldn't use them to cross the border because Assad's troops would capture us," says Saadallah, one of the leaders of network working to get the most seriously injured out of the country.
After a rest, the men take up the march again. No one talks as they approach the border.
"We always move by night to avoid being detected by the army. The journey is very slow."
Naturally, their routes are a secret but, as the crow flies, it's about 50km to Turkey from Kansafra, the staging post for many of these