On February 22, 2012, American journalist Mary Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik were killed in the besieged Baba Amr neighborhood of Homs, after the house they were staying in was shelled; many of their colleagues were also injured. This barbaric incident occurred only a day after Syrian photographer Rami Ahmad al-Sayed was killed on February 21 in the same neighborhood, after being hit by shrapnel while transporting a family of three to a field hospital.

The SKeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom strongly condemns the horrible massacres, whether premeditated or not, that the Syrian army has been carrying out against journalists during the indiscriminate shelling of residential areas. SKeyes also calls on the international community, the international human rights organizations, especially those in charge of protecting journalists and promoting their rights, and the countries of origin of killed and wounded journalists, to take immediate action and put pressure on international authorities, in order to stop this bloodbath before the situation gets worse and before other journalists and innocent people pay the price. SKeyes also emphasizes the need to bring perpetrators before courts specialized in war crimes and crimes against humanity, in order to put an immediate end to impunity.