Syrian refugees: stories of slaughter

Hundreds of Syrians have fled across the border to Lebanon in recent weeks to flee the brutal conflict in their homeland. Many of them have come from the Syrian city of Homs and other cities at the forefront of the fighting. All too often they have suffered the loss of their loved ones, including one man whose wife and two baby children were murdered and a woman who witnessed the rape and killing of her two young neices in front of her eyes. Susy Hodges spoke to Patrick Nicholson of Caritas Internationalis who has just returned from a visit to Lebanon where he met some of these Syrian refugees in person.

Nicholson says the shocking stories told by these refugees "really build up a picture of human suffering and tragedy and of a brutal civil war." He believes that about half of the killings that he heard about "would qualify as crimes against humanity."

Listen to the full interview by Susy Hodges with Patrick Nicholson: