YouTube video shows Syrian boy, 10, slain in home by sniper
(CNN) -- From a distance, he appears to be taking a ***. His long, delicate eyelashes are closed as his head rests on a blanket.
The 10-year-old boy, however, is not ******.
The turn of his gauze-wrapped head reveals a mass of *****. Maher al-Husseini is dead, reportedly from a sniper bullet.
He **** to death.
In his own home.
"What is the fault of this *****?" asks a man, whose voice rises in anger on a video posted Friday on YouTube. He kneels down and gestures to the boy, whose hands and ankles are tied.
"What did this ***** do that they hit him inside his house? This is unacceptable."
Friday was a day of protest, pain and sorrow in Homs, a center of demonstrations and death in Syria. At least 17 people were reported slain in the city, according to the Local Coordination Committees of Syria, an activist group.
Women, ******** and dissident soldiers were among those ****** Friday in Syria, the group said.
The United Nations said last week that more than 4,000 people have died in Syria since a ****** government crackdown against protesters erupted in mid-March.
The unidentified narrator of the video starts the tour of the home upstairs, pointing to a bullet hole on a window frame, then ***** on the chair beneath it.
He leads the cameraman down *****-spattered stairs to the body of Maher, lying in the ****** sitting room.
The boy wears a maroon sweatshirt featuring a comic character.
"We could not aid the *****, we did not know where to take him because of the firing in the neighborhood," the agitated man said. "He kept ******** for half an hour and we could not aid him."
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