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Mass killings and a humanitarian crisis: an introduction to Syria's East Ghouta

Written by Professor Scott Lucas, Professor of International Relations and US Politics. Another bloody chapter in Syria's seven-year conflict is being written. With bombs, missiles and shells, pro-Assad forces are carrying out mass killings of civilians in East Ghouta, near the Syrian capital Damascus, amid a tightening five-year siege in which scores of people have died from lack of food or medical treatment in recent months.

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