Talk:Talkalakh massacre

What's wrong with front pages?
I just went to create a front page before someone created a re-direct, but was too slow. I see it does appear under "All Pages", so that's cool. But I still find a slight problem in that talk pages don't show up under "new pages." Anyone looking there will think we have no such page and move on. I prefer the MO I usually use of having a stub page with a hard re-direct to talk. Most subject warrant and get some kind of front page past the stub, eventually. A request, or alternately, invitation to debate reasons. --Caustic Logic (talk) 10:27, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
 * The redirect is there partly because it is included in Category:Massacres. Without it it would be really difficult to find this talk page. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 10:36, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I think I see that. You'd have to know to look under T, for Talk, not T for Talkalakh... Hmm, odd example to use this on. Same problem though for Houla but worse -skip to "the." The idea of a prominent re-direct is to re-direct people and minimize that problem. It can be missed by a sloppy reader, so the automation would help with that. And some people just won't look at two pages. Hmmm... Ah, I'm tired. --Caustic Logic (talk) 12:40, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
 * What is the problem? The category is in the redirect, not on the Talk page. Talkalakh massacre is listed under T in Category:Massacres. The italics in the category view mean it is a redirect, not a real article page. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 17:05, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Oh I don't know. I'm still tired. Never mind. --Caustic Logic (talk) 23:29, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

What is this?
-- Petri Krohn (talk) 19:46, 1 April 2013‎ (UTC)
 * Talkalakh massacre: Syrian rebels, govt trade accusations – April 01, 2013
 * Was thinking of making a page for this. It pops up on SOHR, etc. What is it? One of our type of incidents, so quite likely an Islamo-nihilist crime. Well, the page is started, anyway. Thanks!--Caustic Logic (talk) 23:24, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Page title says Talk Talk Talk, almost. Interesting. --Caustic Logic (talk) 09:31, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Reports

 * RT, April 1, 2013: Talkalakh massacre: Syrian rebels, govt trade accusations
 * Syrian rebels and government forces have accused each other of killing 13 civilians, most of them women and children. Their bodies were discovered in Homs province in western Syria near the Lebanese border on Sunday.


 * The bodies were found in the Burj neighborhood near the town of Talkalakh, RT’s crew reported from the site.


 * State media blamed unidentified rebel fighters for the night raid. SANA news agency said the victims were robbed and killed before an army unit intervened.


 * The pro-rebel London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights blamed the army troops for the deaths, claiming the civilians were killed as government forces stormed the neighborhood.


 * Talkalakh saw a rare ceasefire between the army and fighters of the Free Syrian Army in mid-March, sponsored by local sheikhs. However, the already-shaky agreement was strained further after Damascus claimed that a large group of militants had infiltrated the town from across the border.


 * Lebanon’s Sunni-dominated north is largely supportive of Syrian anti-government fighters, most of whom share their faith. Damascus has blamed its Shiite allies in power in Beirut for not doing enough to curb the flow of fighters and arms through Lebanese territory into Syria.


 * RT refrained from publishing its footage of the victims’ bodies due to the graphic nature of the material.


 * SOHR, March 31:
 * The bodies of 11 civilians (8 of them women) were found summarily executed in the al-Burj neighbourhood of Talkalakh city which was stormed by the armed forces; activist in the area state the the regime forces who stormed the neighbourhood are responsible.


 * LCC: Syria Today 31-3-2013
 * 32 martyrs in Homs ... Homs: Tal Kalakh: A new massacre at the hands of regime forces and thugs of 11 martyrs (the first count). The civilians were slaughtered with knives and their bodies were mutilated after regime forces stormed Birj Neighborhood.