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Syria Tag

29 Jul

[Rebecca Bakos Blumenthal is Starvation and Humanitarian Crisis Lead at Global Rights Compliance. Elise Lauriot Prevost is a legal advisor with Global Rights Compliance.] Siege Tactics in Syria This article traces Russia’s use of siege warfare and the deliberate starvation of civilians, field-tested across the Syrian conflict and then deployed against Mariupol. Part II examines the siege of Yarmouk camp, now the subject of pending criminal proceedings...

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29 Jul

[Rebecca Bakos Blumenthal is Starvation and Humanitarian Crisis Lead at Global Rights Compliance. Elise Lauriot Prevost is a legal advisor with Global Rights Compliance.] I. Introduction In February 2022, as Russian forces encircled Mariupol and began systematically severing its electricity, water, and food supply, many observers described what was unfolding as unprecedented: a European city of nearly half a million people, deliberately starved into submission. It was...

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20 Feb

[Fadel Abdulghany is executive director of the Syrian Network for Human Rights and author of The Use of Chemical Weapons in Syria and the Failure of the International Community and Undermining the Independence of the Judiciary in Syria and Pathways to Its Reform. Kenneth Roth is a former executive director of Human Rights Watch, a visiting professor at Princeton’s School of Public and...

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