Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Monday 27 Aug 2012

1. SYRIA: WITNESSES DESCRIBE MASSACRE

Eyewitnesses have given more details of the massacre on Saturday of more than 200 people in the Sunni community of Daraya, on the outskirts of Damascus, by President Assad’s forces. One reported seeing scores of bodies, killed by gunfire and bayonets. “The regime finished off whole families - a father, mother and their children.”

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