Wounded French journalist pleads for Syria evacuation

PanARMENIAN.Net - A French journalist wounded in shelling in Syria that killed two other Western journalists is pleading with her government to evacuate her so she can have an operation, AP reported.

In a video posted on YouTube, Edith Bouvier says her leg is broken in two places and that she has received some medical treatment but now needs an operation. Bouvier said she was speaking Thursday, February 23 and is calm throughout the 6-and-a-half minute video, even smiling.

She was wounded Wednesday, February 22 during Syrian forces' shelling of an opposition stronghold.

Bouvier and her colleague William Daniels appear to be with a doctor and Syrian rebels, who ask the journalists to say they are being treated well but need to leave since they can no longer be cared for.

Warnings from Syrian activists of a humanitarian catastrophe in Homs grew more desperate Thursday as government forces resumed shelling an opposition stronghold in the restive central city, where hundreds have died in a weekslong siege.