Syrian protester describes blood bath, begs for outside intervention

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Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Damascus on Tuesday and said he was willing to begin a dialogue with Syrian dissidents and also would move soon to have a referendum on a new constitution.

Meanwhile, though Syrian forces continued an assault against people in Homs, killing more people in the city of Homs, Syria’s third largest city and the center of a popular uprising. Dissidents there say they're in no mood for negotiations with Assad.

"We're not going to negotiate with the regime," said Homs resident and dissident Danny Abdul Dayem. "We're not going to negotiate over 50,000 people dead. I know they're saying 6,000, 7,000. We have mass graves everywhere. We have bodies missing. People missing. We don't know how many are in prison.

"We do not want to negotiate," he said.

The Syrian protesters, Dayem said, won't be satisfied by anything less than the fall of the Syrian regime.

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