Democracy Now: Journalist Anand Gopal Warns Protesters "Face Slaughter" by Assad Regime
Journalist Anand Gopal has just returned from Syria, where he interviewed survivors of last week’s bloody battle for the town of Taftanaz in northern Syria. Reports say government forces continue to attack rebel strongholds in Homs, Hama and other cities in violation of a U.N.-backed ceasefire that took effect last week. "In every town and village, essentially the entire population was mobilized in support of the revolution," Gopal says. "You had from little children to old people. Really, I’ve never seen anything like that before. And it showed to me the extent to which the revolution has a mass, democratic popular base, and Assad doesn’t." [includes rush transcript]
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/19/back_from_syria_journalist_anand_gopal