Every now and again you pop to the toilet and stop to listen at the door. To reassure yourself, you poke your head into your children’s bedroom. You can hear their gentle snores and you smile.

And then a gang of armed men kicks down your door.

The men shout at you to get down on the floor. They have guns and knives.

But you don’t get down on the floor. You won’t leave your babies. You scream and plead with the men.

Your pleas fall on deaf ears.

The shouts wake your children. They are crying for you. Shouting, “Mummy, Mummy”. You are held back. You can’t go to them. The men have guns and knives.

The cries from your children rise. They are louder and louder. “Mummy, Daddy, Mummy, Daddy”.

Still, you are held back. The men push you away before rushing towards the cries. Your children scream your name. Over and over.

And then silence.

The men have silenced your children. With guns and knives.

This is not a nightmare. This happened. Not 70 years ago, in Germany. But last week. It happened last week.

And not in one house. But in a whole town. It happened in a whole town.

Men with guns and knives came in the night and killed 108 people, 49 of them children.

Children. Babies. Toddlers.

One of those children was a little girl, not yet two years old. She was beautiful. Half her skull was missing.

She could be my daughter. My not yet two year old daughter. My daughter who still wears nappies. My innocent, tiny, vulnerable daughter.

It could have been her…

They could be our babies. Children. Babies. Toddlers.

Men with guns and knives.

You may be reading this in the comfort of your living room, while your babies sleep soundly upstairs. Just think, for a second, what you would do if a gang of men burst into your home and attacked your children. Attacked them with the purpose of taking their lives away.

You don’t have to do nothing.

If you would like to add your voice to the one calling for an end to the violence in Syria, there is something you can do.

• You can sign the petition from Save The Children.
• You can sign the petition from Amnesty.
• You can join the protest of mothers, parents, grandparents and children, to London on 10th June.
• You can blog about it, tweet about it or share the things you read on Facebook.
• You can RT tweets you see that use the hashtags #tippingpoint #syria #stopthekilling
• You can read more about the politics and facts known about the massacre in Houla, Syria here.

You don’t have to do nothing.

They could have been your babies. They could have been mine.

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