人道救援物資抵達霍姆斯

The International Committee of the Red Cross says medical supplies and humanitarian aid have reached the battered city of Homs and will soon be taken to the Baba Amr neighborhood.

An ICRC spokesperson said Friday that a convoy of seven trucks carrying aid would enter Baba Amr, a district of Homs where rebels and citizens have been under siege by government forces for nearly a month.

The delivery comes as activists say the increasingly dire humanitarian situation led to the "tactical retreat" of opposition forces on Thursday. Activists say the city's water supply has been cut off and that food, medicine and electricity are scarce.

The United Nations' human rights office announced Friday it has received unconfirmed reports that 17 executions took place in Baba Amr on Thursday.

A spokesman ((Rupert Colville)) for U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said the global body is appealing to Syrian authorities and the opposition to prevent unlawful reprisals, torture and arbitrary detentions following this "particularly grizzly set of summary executions."國際紅十字會說，醫療物資和人道援助已經進入遭到襲擊的霍姆斯市，很快就會被運送到巴巴阿姆魯社區。

國際紅十字會的一位發言人星期五說，裝載着援助物資的七輛卡車組成的車隊將進入巴巴阿姆魯。巴巴阿姆魯是霍姆斯的一個社區，那裏的反政府人士和居民被政府軍圍困了將近一個月。

在援助到來的同時，活動人士說，越來越嚴峻的人道局勢迫使反政府武裝星期四作出“戰術性撤退”。活動人士說，霍姆斯的飲用水供應已經被切斷，而且缺少食品、醫藥和電力供應稀少。

另外，聯合國人權辦公室星期五宣佈，他們得到未經證實的報告稱，星期四霍姆斯的巴巴阿姆魯區有17人被處決。

聯合國人權事務高級專員的發言人表示，在這一“特別恐怖的一系列集體處決事件”發生後，聯合國呼籲敘利亞當局阻止非法的報復、酷刑和任意拘禁。