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WORLD Activists: Syria rebels parade government loyalists in cages
BEIRUT (AP) — Activists are reporting that rebels in a suburb of the Syrian capital which came under heavy bombings have paraded government loyalists in cages in the streets, using them as human shields against further attacks.
Videos of the metal cages mounted on pick-up trucks roaming the streets of Douma surfaced Sunday, with each carrying at least half a dozen government soldiers or women professing to be members of the Alawite minority, the offshoot Shiite sect to which Syrian President Bashar Assad belongs. The Shaam news agency, operated by anti-government activists, said at least 100 cages are deployed in residential areas as a way to pressure the government to stop its bombing of Douma. At least 70, mostly civilians, were killed after a government barrage of missiles hit a market in rebel-held Douma.
