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About 30 killed in Syrian city following UN observers’ visit

Government hits civilians after monitors leave

By Neil MacFarquhar

 |  New York Times  

  April 24, 2012

Syrian government forces engaged in an extended game of cat and mouse against U.N. observers Monday, attacking cities like Hama after the monitors left and adopting a low profile as the monitors visited the Damascus suburbs. Hama, which had been quiet a day before when the U.N. team visited, boomed repeatedly as shells exploded in the Arbaeen and Mashaa al-Arbaeen neighborhoods, according to activists, who said about 30 people were killed.

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