cnn s arwa damon found people at the hospital overflowing with dead and wounded. reporter: this is the lie of life ali says angrily when you ask him if the foreign minister claimed the police warned the demonstrators before attack. the one thing that never, ever crossed my mind was that they would attack us like this, he says. it was a massacre. the government says they used a minimum of force, claiming their forces also suffered casualties. they say they found firearms and knives among the protesters. inside, we meet zain, she and her two children were sleeping in a tent with other women and their kids when they woke up coughing on tear gas. and then they set the tent on fire. it went up in glams around us, she says. my 6-year-old grabbed on to me and said, mommy, mommy, call