Talk:Akrama School Bombing

Protests
There were public protests in Homs following the school bombing calling for the provincial governor, Talal al-Barazi, to resign. A New York Times article explains how these were led by "supporters of the government, angry that security forces did not prevent (the bombing)." But the report points out the similarities to 2011's anti-government protests, including their echoing of a ubiquitous chant re-worked into “the people want the fall of the governor.”

A Sky News report adds a mathematical angle, reporting thast the governor "is accused of playing down the atrocity after saying 30 pupils were killed," when in fact "a total of 54 people died, including 47 children under 12, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights." Last I saw, they were one child short of that tally, but point made - 30 is way smaller than 46/47. However, at one point, the SOHR were also saying 30 pupils died, just like the governor said. It was probably true when both said it, at the same time: as the SOHR section below shows, the numbers weren't fudged down, they grew with time as people died from their injuries. Do the people there really think he was trying to minimize the number? This sounds like a pretty stupid thing to think.

NYT implies that is the gist, saying the dissident have been posting pictures of Gov. Barazi with food aid delivered to al-Wa'er (the last rebel holdout district of Homs), calling him a friend of the terrorists over that. By this criteria, maybe they would suspect he allowed the attack due to negligence or fondness, or would try to minimize the crimes of his buddied. But it still seems like a stupid thing to think, and I have my doubts about these supposed masses of frustrated "pro-government" citizens. --Caustic Logic (talk) 13:58, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

SOHR

 * Facebook page, Oct. 1:
 * 2 powerful explosions were heard in the neighborhood of new Ekremah which is inhabited by Alawites, one of these 2 explosions caused by an explosion of a booby trapped car near the primary school of Ekremah al Makhzomi leading to kill and injure dozens of people, including children.


 * site, Oct. 1:
 * 18 people, including children, were killed while 40 other were injured due to explosion of 2 booby trapped cars ... The number is expected to go up because there are people who were seriously wounded.
 * It went up. Fatal injuries and deep lifetime maiming seem prevalent.


 * Facebook update 39 dead, including 30 children
 * FB 41 children and 7 adults.
 * Five more kids died, for 53 total Website, Oct. 1:
 *  rose to 53, the number of people who were killed by 2 explosions in Ekrima neighborhood in Homs city today, including 46 children most of them were under the age of 12, and 3 elements from the criminal security, including 1 officer, when they came to the area after the first explosion . the number of the dead is likely to rise according to the serious injuries.
 * their mourning this morning turned into a set-in, the civilians of Homs demanded of discharging Homs governor and his assistant “Luna al-Shebel” the director of the press office in the regime .
 * (the reasoning for the latter is not explained) --Caustic Logic (talk) 10:34, 3 October 2014 (UTC)