This week, the Syrian Revolution takes a bloody and tragic turn when the Assad regime begins to put restive towns and cities under military siege. Starvation, indiscriminate bombings, and other horrors associated with the Syrian Civil War (a label that many Syrians see as a misnomer) begin to be seen in mid-2011.

 

Sources cited:

 

Syria by Samer N. Abboud

 

Civil War in Syria by Baczko, et al

 

The Syrian Revolution by Yasser Munif

 

Inside Syria’s Slaughter: A Journalist Sneaks Into Dara’a, the ‘Ghetto of Death’ by Christian Clanet for Le Monde, published in partnership with Worldcrunch and Time Magazine

 

Impossible Revolution by Yassin al-Haj Saleh

 

No Turning Back by Rania Abouzeid

 

The Last Sanctuary in Aleppo by Alaa al-Jaleel

 

Assad or We Burn the Country by Sam Dagher

 

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Genocide by Silent Carrion

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