On Wednesday, an aid convoy entered the two cities of Zamalka and Arbeen in rural Damascus. The convoy, which consists of 37 lorries, contained medical and food items and was sent by the United Nations team in Syria. This is the first time in which relief items enter the two cities, both of which have […]
The blockade of Madaya: the slow silent murder
The suffocating siege imposed upon the town of Madaya in Damascus Suburb resumed its sixth month, causing one of the worst humanitarian crisis resultant of the blockade policy of the Syrian regime; which has been carried out on a large-scale in a number of Syrian cities and towns since April 2011 until the present day. The […]
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 […]