NEW : At least 45 women and children are stabbed , then burned , activists killed . NEW : The LCC described the killings as a `` massacre orchestrated by the regime '' of President Bashar al-Assad . The attacks occur days after U.N. special envoy Michael Annan visited the country . Annan met with Syrian president , proposed cease - fire , release detainees , aid civilians . Opposition groups report random shelling , machine gunfire .
NEW : At least 45 women and children are stabbed , then burned , activists killed . NEW : The attacks occur days after U.N. special envoy Michael Annan visited the country . Annan met with Syrian president , proposed cease - fire , release detainees , aid civilians . Opposition groups report random shelling , machine gunfire .