Fifty-eight civilians were killed in Syria on Wednesday 11/12//2013, among them eight women and 15 children. The largest number was killed in Damascus and its suburbs, in which 23 were killed, among them seven from Douma that were killed by regime gunfire and five that were summarily executed by regime forces in al-Nabak (rural Damascus). […]
Genocide: The politics of Blockade
Throughout history, the political strategy of laying siege on cities has been practiced on a wide scale in many regions across the world, the most famous examples in our recent history being that of Sarajevo in the 1990s (blocked off by the Serbian army), the siege of Grozny imposed by Russian forces, and the blockade […]