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Patrick Cockburn // While the world looks to Eastern Ghouta, civilians in Afrin are being slaughtered in their hundreds by Turkish forces | The Independent

10.3.18

While the world looks to Eastern Ghouta, civilians in Afrin are being slaughtered in their hundreds by Turkish forces | The Independent: Afrin is seeing the beginnings of a tragedy that could be every bit as bad or worse than anything witnessed in Eastern Ghouta today or East Aleppo in 2016. Coming upon pictures of children buried under broken concrete, one has to search for additional information to know if the deaths are of Kurds killed by the Turkish bombardment in northern Syria, or people in Eastern Ghouta slaughtered by the Syrian government at the same time in much the same way. The greatest difference between the two situations is that the atrocities in Damascus are publicised by the media across the world, while in the Kurdish case they are regarded as scarcely worth a mention.


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