Tag: Sunnis

Shia-Sunni swap

Packaged as a “coordinated population transfer” ~ in-house, more accurately ~ in Syria’s six-year-long civil war, last Friday’s evacuation of more than 7000 people from four besieged towns isn’t exactly an essay towards rehabilitation, initiated by the Bashar al-Assad regime. It is, on closer reflection, a forced rearrangement of the country’s population, and with sectarian …

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April 21, 2017