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 Music licensing: Fragments by Nomyn https://soundcloud.com/nomyn Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-fragments Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/ndyyIhwojys Genocide by Silent Carrion Creative Commons - attribution-noncommercial-noderivatives 4.0 international (cc by-nc-nd 4.0) https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Silent_Carrion/Suprematism_EP_III_Sol/Silent_Carrion_-_Suprematism_EP_III_Sol_-_01_Genocide

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