Opposition activists declared Tuesday a day of mourning across Syria as the death toll from nearly a year of government attacks grew.

More than 8,000 people have been killed in the conflict, including many women and children, said Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, president of the U.N. General Assembly. Opposition activists have put the toll at more than 9,000.

The call for a day of mourning followed what activists described as a massacre over the weekend in Homs, where dozens of women and children were reportedly stabbed and burned to death.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime insists "armed terrorist groups" -- which it routinely blames for the violence -- were behind the killings in the Karm al-Zaytoun neighborhood. The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency said Tuesday that such groups had "committed a most atrocious massacre against women, children and elderly citizens in Karm al-Zaytoun neighborhood and mutilated their bodies in order to put pressure to elicit international stances against Syria."

Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby called Tuesday for "an international neutral investigation into the massacres of Homs, Hama, Idlib, Baba Amr, and other areas where dozens of citizens including women and children were killed, leaving many questions on who committed them as they are clearly crime(s) against humanity," an Arab League official said.
Why has nothing been done to stop this why are they not being helped. it is inhuman for this to be going on why doesn't the Syrian President do anything he needs to have these armed terrorist groups taken off the streets before things get even worst.
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I think the president should ask for help if he can’t control the people in his country. I also think that it’s a crime against humanity to kill women and children to trying and hurt the moral of an imposing force. The Syrian government sounds like they’re dealing with genocide of their own.