Amateur video out of Syria shows Arab League monitors on the streets of Homs.<br/> The video which could not be independently verified by Reuters shows a resident telling the monitors that the government has hidden their tanks from the observers.<br/> A woman interrupts pleading for the return of people who have been detained by the government.<br/> Syrian security forces have arrested thousands of people in their crackdown on nine months of revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.<br/> Homs has become the flashpoint for Syria's resistance.<br/> The district has been hit by machine gun fire and mortar rounds in recent days in apparent clashes between armed rebels and the army.<br/> Citizens continue to call for the end of Assad's rule. They want international protection.<br/> The United Nations says at least 5,000 people have been killed in Syria since the uprising began in March.<br/> The government blames the blood shed on foreign backed Islamist insurgents..<br/> Syria has banned foreign journalists from the country making it difficult to verify accounts of activists or the government.<br/> Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters
