7 Million Displaced Syrians, Bayda Massacre, & other Reports you Didn’t see on American TV Posted on 09/14/2013 by Juan Cole American network & cable television has been focused his week on US-Russian diplomacy with relatively little coverage (aside from Ben Wedemann on CNN and a handful of others) of what is happening on the ground in Syria. Here are some Syria reports from European and VOA correspondents that illuminate the situation there: 1. Euronews: “Seven million Syrians, or one-third of the population, are either displaced within their own country or are refugees abroad, according to the latest estimates from the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. Of those, two million have fled to neighbouring Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. The biggest burden has fallen on a very weak Lebanese state, where the Syrian war has already provoked considerable internal violence. Some refugees have gone further afield. According to the UN, 4,600 Syrians have reached the Italian coast with around two-thirds arriving in August alone.” juancole/2013/09/displaced-massacre-american.html youtube/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=b9F4oKAbD0o
Posted on: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 15:45:14 +0000
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