Syria’s civil war is killing refugees
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POSTMEDIA NETWORK
FIRST POSTED: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 03, 2015 04:17 PM MDT | UPDATED: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 03, 2015 04:26 PM MDT
A man hold a placard reading "Help Europe" as Syrian and Afgan refugees attend a protest rally to demand to travel to Germany on September 2, 2015 outside the Keleti (East) railway station in Budapest. Hungarian authorities face mounting anger from thousands of migrants who are unable to board trains to western European countries after the main Budapest station was closed. AFP PHOTO / FERENC ISZA
While the photo of that tragedy has suddenly galvanized world opinion, this war has been going on for four years between the brutal dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad and rebel forces, joined more recently by the crazed killers of ISIS. Syria is in chaos.
Almost 300,000 people have died in the fighting.
Three hundred thousand have tried to cross the Mediterranean to Europe; 2,500 have drowned.
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Syria’s civil war is killing refugees
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POSTMEDIA NETWORK
FIRST POSTED: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 03, 2015 04:17 PM MDT | UPDATED: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 03, 2015 04:26 PM MDT
A man hold a placard reading "Help Europe" as Syrian and Afgan refugees attend a protest rally to demand to travel to Germany on September 2, 2015 outside the Keleti (East) railway station in Budapest. Hungarian authorities face mounting anger from thousands of migrants who are unable to board trains to western European countries after the main Budapest station was closed. AFP PHOTO / FERENC ISZA
While the photo of that tragedy has suddenly galvanized world opinion, this war has been going on for four years between the brutal dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad and rebel forces, joined more recently by the crazed killers of ISIS. Syria is in chaos.
Almost 300,000 people have died in the fighting.
Three hundred thousand have tried to cross the Mediterranean to Europe; 2,500 have drowned.
Continue reading at:
Syria’s civil war is killing refugees