Busloads of civilians living in the Syrian city of Homs are being evacauted, in what is the first stage of a three-day humanitarian ceasefire.<br/> <br />The beseiged city has experienced some of the worst devastation in the nearly three year old civil war that has killed 130,000 people.<br/> <br />A dutch priest living in Homs is making an appeal for more help.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Dutch) DUTCH CATHOLIC PRIEST, FRANS VAN DER LUGT, SAYING:<br/> <br />"The hunger slowly but surely eats away the body...Now, here we tried to grow some vegetables, because we have been without vegetables for almost one and half years."<br/> <br />U.N. peace talks two weeks ago yielded the first positive results between the warring sides in the conflict.<br/> <br />Perhaps that will calm the growling stomachs of those who are stuck in the crossfire.<br/> <br />But there's little sign that the ceasefire will resolve the fundamental grievances a civil war that has left Homs in ruins.
