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For someone like me, living a safe, protected life in the UK, it's hard to believe people are still fighting wars. The conflict is not one side of chivalrous knights against another. Modern trends target the innocent who want nothing more than to live their lives in peace.
However, a leading rights group has warned that the Syrian Air Force is carrying out deliberate air strikes against civilians and also indiscriminate attacks. 700,000 deaths are estimated to have resulted from the conflict, which targeted cities, towns and neighborhoods under the control of opposition forces.
However, a leading rights group has warned that the Syrian Air Force is carrying out deliberate air strikes against civilians and also indiscriminate attacks. 700,000 deaths are estimated to have resulted from the conflict, which targeted cities, towns and neighborhoods under the control of opposition forces.
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Human Rights Watch says it visited 52 sites in north-western Syria, documenting 59 such unlawful attacks on opposition-controlled sites in Aleppo, Idlib and Latakia governorates in the country's north west. It points out that both types of attacks, estimated to have killed thousands, are serious violations of international law. Government forces had launched strikes and artillery attacks on bakeries and civilians waiting to buy bread, and on hospitals, with strong evidence those facilities had been deliberately targeted.
They can't even go out of their houses to shop. These people are mothers with children just like us. Grandparents, uncles and aunts, brothers and sisters, babes in arms. Will the conflict pull communities together and make them stronger and more caring about each other? I can't help wondering what the children will reminisce about when, or if, they reach adulthood. How will their experiences affect them in later life? The young boys of today could mature with a burning need for revenge. And so, the cycle of conflict will perpetuate.
They can't even go out of their houses to shop. These people are mothers with children just like us. Grandparents, uncles and aunts, brothers and sisters, babes in arms. Will the conflict pull communities together and make them stronger and more caring about each other? I can't help wondering what the children will reminisce about when, or if, they reach adulthood. How will their experiences affect them in later life? The young boys of today could mature with a burning need for revenge. And so, the cycle of conflict will perpetuate.
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