What's the actual human cost of the war in Syria? | Inside Story
Half a million dead, 12 million displaced, during 10 years of fighting.
A harsh winter and coronavirus, are adding to the misery and the death toll.
What started as a peaceful protest, the war in Syria is now heading into its 11th year, and there’s no real end in sight.
The country’s been torn into rival areas controlled by different groups, backed by regional or international players.
And it’s now facing a surge in COVID-19 cases, an economic crisis and U.S. sanctions targeting the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
On Inside Story, an in-depth discussion on the war in Syria
Presenter: Peter Dobbie
Guests
Kenan Rahmani, advocacy manager of The Syria Campaign, a human rights organisation.
Joshua Landis, Director of the Center for Middle East Studies and Sandra Mackey Chair at the University of Oklahoma.
Ammar Waqqaf, director of Gnosos, a Middle East focussed think tank.
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May Allah help syrians and all those suffering
If only all the other Arab states had the guts to stand up against the US. all dirty politics and normal ordinary people suffer.
🇺🇸=👿 go home yankee
They act like Assad is some cartoon character villain. People don’t do that in real life. Nobody wants to harm their own people. The people who are harming the Syrians are the ones who support evil sanctions, which i believe is the most evil forms of warfare in existence. Essentially it’s someone saying, “bend the knee or your people will starve by the millions”.
Let’s all remember who started this crisis: Bashar al Assad.
He was too afraid and fragile to let his people peacefully protest against him, so he started murdering the civilans. As the protestors (majority of Syrians) started to organize in resistance groups to defend themselves from the regime brutality, Assad freed Islamist prisoners for them to interfere and challenge the moderate opposition, so that the moderates started to have two enemies, making it harder for them to challenge SAA. All this is Assad’s own fault, and it’s a shame that the real Syrian people has to suffer 😢
I hope for peace in Syria 🇸🇾🕊
Ya rab jalimon KO ibrat ka nishan bana dy aameen somma aameen
The guest with the beard has no idea what is going on. It sounds like the script has been written by Pompeo.
USA is mad because Syria government and Russia are.killing the terrorist US fund.
Sad sad
all info is …old
old foto
old fakes
My country when it will be safe i miss to touch the rocks of the ummayyad mosque of aleppo
US was asking for freedom of the rebels of SYRIA but US now controlled the rebels of TRUMP supporters. The Western freedom and democracy mean, ….."I will use lit your house but not my house"
I thought the war ended…
Ironic the only guy that doesnt get it sits in DC. What a tool
What America has done to other countries also will happen here we seen that last week the saddest thing is to them kids God sees that that's why the west is under Divine destruction
Syrians Runed Tbeir Country
Qatar Saudi Arabia, UAE and all the rich oil producing countries should at least try to help their Muslim brothers and sisters, not just busy counting their money.
Syria is a typical proxy war country of the great powers in the Middle East
USA the devil
The US holds a pretty good hand. By patronising the Kurdish militias in the east, they have created a buffer between Iraq and Syria, they occupy some oil wells and, most importantly, they control almost all of Syrias fresh water supplies; ensuring the prepetual instability of the Assad regime. Food prices will skyrocket as the country needs to import food without the ability to exchange USD due to sanctions.
Assad should have gone yesterday.
Fake western propaganda news the America support the terrorists
Leave Syria alone !
US regime change policy and war machines business is the only one to be blame on all the Chaos , Suffering and Destabilization in Arabs Countries. But the cruel and foolish people on this war torn countries don't realize this, hope someday they will and stop hatred and brutalities…
“Syrian government decided to destroy the infrastructure.” Was it the Syrian governments decision to fund the opposition to take these areas over and decimate and rape the population? No that was United States. That Washington puppet must shut up by god
Wow that idiot in Washington. Wonder why he is living there. American government lapdog.
And now one of the man behind this war is elected to be next USA president.
Freedom peace and Blessings 🤲🏻🤲🏻
Syria is a baathist dictatorship. Arabs cant shake off that authoritarian mindset
Its hurts alot😭😭😭
They should go fight in the forest or desert if they think there rambo's. There cowards fighting in the cities destroying it and killing to the innocent children.
Why do this all people suffer.
Meanwhile in Palestinian/Syria to Afghanistan ANYONE?
Iraq
Pakistan/Kashmir
IRANIAN
Lebanon's
ARAB world
UMMAH empires
BANGLADESH etc to INDONESIA/MALAYSIA etc TOO. Since 45 era & Beyond..
This is nothing compared to the suffering of the Palestinians. Help them!
😢😢🥺 our heart goes with Syrian people .. may they have better life
Im glad those sunnis had to eat their own shoes. Bashar protected Christians and other minorities, im glad he did
The Financial Times reported that Qatar had funded the Syrian rebellion by at least $1 billion and "as much as $3 billion" over the first two years of the civil war.[1] It reported that Qatar was offering refugee packages of about $50,000 a year to defectors and family.[1]
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute estimated that Qatar had fueled the war by delivering more weapons to Syria than any other country. In total, there were over 15 weapons cargo flights into Turkey between April 2012 and March 2013.[1][2]
Qatar operates a training base for rebels in its territory, in conjunction with U.S. military forces who ran the training, training about 1,200 rebels a year in three week courses.[3][4]
Qatar has provided support to rebel groups across the spectrum and has received criticism for not only funding more moderate rebels but also a coalition known as the Army of Conquest, which contains al-Qaeda linked groups.[5]
GAFT is a new organization being created to abolishing these sickening societies that have been induced by the government.. all sides in the fight will be considered a crime against humanity and will have to answer for these crimes.
I will post a link at some point soon where you can lol into the situations on watch
US trying to restore SO CALLED DEMOCRACY in States. They tasted their own wound.
lmao at that washington fluff buy ,how many times he kept saying "assad regime" man these ppl are pathetic trying to push there weak propaganda
I'm Shia please don't kill me 😢🤧😢, save Shia Pakistan 😢"
This dumb fu* cant get it… That rehmani guy… Step up the pressure bullsh*.. The west has lost it… They r pushing more nd more poor innocent human beings to furthr subjugation and calamities.
Everyone must back off.. For peace to come.. There is nothng wrong if asad sides with russia… If the west has some issues with russia they shud fight face to face nd not on some poor innocent lands
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