Twenty-eight thousand men, women and children are trapped in Baba Amr. Last week, before American journalist Marie Colvin was killed alongside French photographer Remi Ochlik, Colvin reported that the Syrian army had dug a trench around the neighbourhood, making it almost impossible for residents to escape. On Monday, activists reported that 64 people were killed at a checkpoint in Homs. They were trying to flee Baba Amr.

Medical supplies aren't just running low in the besieged suburb - they're practically nonexistent. "People come to you with a huge injury, and you can't do anything more than wrap their injury with a bandage," he says. "After you go to the field hospital, and take what you can from the two or three doctors, you can't do anything else. You have to go back home, or to the shelters we have, waiting for some miracle to happen."

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