The Return to Homs Page #4

Me, I will stay here,

tell people they can join me.

But one your guys say we'll join

at 10am, they should do that!

I can carry out a reconnaissance

operation in the area...

then position guards

and go to sleep!

Abu Hadid! Talk a little,

the line is breaking up.

I am starting operation.

While outside of Horns,

I receive bad news every day.

It is agonizing;

regime security detained Ossama...

on the Syrian-Lebanese borders

while returning from a hospital there.

Ossama just vanished. His whereabouts

and his destiny were unknown.

Sarout, you can make

a good construction worker.

A rebel says." "What we have available

may allow us to persevere for months...

The siege won't last long...

Move the food that's left the bags of our

from the mills into safe basements...

keep your heads safe and your hearts.

Go back to the fronts...

We will not be left on our own. "

Basset says:

"Our priority is to unite

the battalions on the fronts...

Let's turn these houses

into a living hell for them...

should they decide to break in again

- You're good?

- Yes.

Move it guys, move it...

"Brothers, your brother Mohammad...

Ali, departed to God' s mercy".

Forgive him and pray for him.

Basset, what wrong?

I no longer have it in me to do this.

This is not like you.

It's not just that, brother.

All my close friends are gone.

I'm fed up, man.

Hello, sister...

How are you?

I'm on the front... bad coverage...

Midyan is dead.

It hasn't exploded.

Guys, take plenty of cigarettes with you!

Months passed while I was

unable of going to Homs.

I was waiting for news, with fear: ..

News came that the Free Syrian

Army in Homs' countryside...

was preparing to break the siege

by entering Bayada.

Hajj Obeid's group goes first.

Then Ali's group...

Ali!

Come here.

This is how we're getting in:

I go in first with 5 men...

If we survive

then Issam and Hazem will follow...

with the Salafi guys...

with you guys...

Then, the 3rd group, Haj Obeid's group

with Izz al-Din should follow...

Then the 4th group,

you and the guys I put you with.

Before you though,

Amer's group should go in...

You're 4th, you're 5th...

You, you don't go with your group,

you go with the last.

Basset, it's 1.30am.

There's nothing we can do about that.

Tell them to sit and rest.

The army's hearts are dead.

The honor in them is dead.

Why is it killing us, why?

Army and people are

supposed to be brothers.

Wake up, free men of the army.

Wake up, you Arab, you Syrian.

Live with pride and dignity.

Get rid of the immoral Assad.

The army's hearts are dead.

The honor in them is dead.

Why is it killing us, why?

Army and people are

supposed to be brothers.

You're killing the honorable.

For the sake of a backstabbing criminal.

Stop the tyrant from

committing his injustice.

O defender of the land.

The plan required the besieged rebels...

to attack at the same time too.

200 fighters led by Basset were prepared

to enter the neighborhood.

I was scared for his safety

as he led the Avant-garde.

He's hit, he's hit.

That's my cousin! My cousin!

As soon as Basset and the fighters

reached the outskirts of Bayada. ..

The regime surprised them

with an immediate counterattack.

The plan had been exposed. Basset and

the guys were surrounded 'm a small street.

Regime snipers were anticipating

any move from Basset's side.

On that day, there were rumors

Basset was killed.

I remained silent for days

until I was assured he's alive.

Escaping required digging a tunnel

underneath Cairo Str..

so that they return from this new siege

to the bigger siege one with the others.

Making the tunnel took 13 days...

after which, Basset

and the guys were saved.

- Do you have tobacco?

- You're asking for tobacco?

It's easier to get hashish than tobacco.

So have you got any?

Don't worry, we'll sort it out.

Rami, we'll be with you

in 4 or 5 hours.

I want to send this message to the world:

Our martyrs are all around, we can't bury

them, such destruction is unprecedented.

Get this message

to the lying world out there...

such destruction is unprecedented.

They ask us not to fight!

Who will fight then?

Who will protect our land?

How will the women get out of Khalediya?

Where is the road out?

They have children with them too.

This martyr has been dead

on the street for 8 clays!

1, 2, 3, 4, and there are 2 more there.

6 in total.

They were killed within 5 minutes.

And all the injured people too, in buildings

that are going to fall on their heads!

Where are you?

Look.

This is Homs, but I don't know

where I am.

Look at the building I used

to sleep in,Abu Adnan.

Does it look like a building now?

Just wait until I have a shave

and look good.

Do you think I'll have time

to shave before I die?

Maybe we'll find a barber at the

battlefront. Let's hope he's good.

- Will this revolution come to an end?

- Sure. They're not immortal.

I swear, we'll make them hate their lives.

We'll make them leave the country.

But we shouldn't allow them to leave.

We still have business with them.

After some contemplation

and hesitation...

Basset was convinced to leave

the besieged area, through the sewers...

to the outskirts of the city...

to provide food and ammunition...

and to encourage the rebels

around Homs to break the siege.

The situation was hopeless and nobody

was even trying to break the siege.

Basset managed to lea veg

and a few days after...

the sewer was exposed

and the army closed it.

Outside, battles were on,

all around the country...

The destruction is nothing less

than it was in Homs.

This is the return to Homs.

The return via a tunnel.

You'll stare death in the eye on the way.

Those who want to go through this

with us need to be prepared for that.

I'll be the first to go.

I'll be there in front of you.

Death. No cigarettes,

no food, no ammunition.

Show them the way to Homs.

Who want to can go!

That's what I'm saying...

No, there's no decision.

I'm a guy...

If you want to go in then do it,

if not, it's alright.

I'm a crazy guy.

This is what my mind tells me.

I understand. Basset wants to lift

the responsibility off himself...

One second thing:

I need men to go in.

I don't want men who have to go back

to their wife and kids after a few clays.

I don't want men to go back and forth!

There are people inside who have daughters

they haven't seen for 9 months.

That's what I'm talking about.

I'm hitting you hard with my words

so that you listen well.

I don't want to go in there only to find

someone crying next to me!

I need men whom I can help

and who can help me.

We had to leave, it was out of our hands.

Now, we'll go back with our

hands and feet, crawling.

Am I right or not?

Those who have kids and a wife,

if you can't come in, it's alright.

Stay and fight here.

There might be other roads later...

but this one is the road of death.

We shall do this for the people.

We're 5 soldiers, would you take us in?

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