Since Sunday,over 270 civilians in Syria have been killed in eastern Ghouta, a rebel-held area outside of Damascus. President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, and backed by Russian aircrafts,have been bombing the territory. It’s one of just a few rebel strongholds left in Syria.
According to the U.
N. Refugee Agency, more than 5.4 million Syrians have fled the country since civil war broke out in 2011.
Wendy Pearlman is a professor at Northwestern University. From 2012 to 2016, or Pearlman spoke with over 300 Syrian refugees,and started to piece together a story of Syria, one that she published final year in the book, or “We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria.” Here,she explains what life is like for millions of Syrian refugees as the violence continues within their country.
This segment is hosted by Todd Zwillich
Source: thetakeaway.org