No thread on this yet? I don't have any words either, but I thought there should be a thread.
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Reports suggest that the majority of the 71 people who died of suffocation inside a truck found this week in Austria were refugees from Syria. If confirmed, the grisly incident would be yet another bloody episode in Syria's brutal civil war.
The conflict, now in its fifth year, has forced more than 4 million Syrians to flee the country, according to U.N. statistics. An additional 7.6 million Syrians are considered internally displaced, meaning that, since 2011, roughly half of all Syrians have been forced to leave their homes.
Some European governments have reacted with apprehension and indignation at the prospect of having to accommodate the new influx. Only a few, particularly Germany, have wholeheartedly accepted the responsibilities of dealing with the plight of Syria's refugees.
The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, which has diligently tracked reports of casualties since the start of the conflict, claims that more than 310,000 Syrians have died as a result of the war since 2011. Civilian deaths happen in all sorts of terrible ways — from mass executions and suicide bombings carried about jihadist groups to the almost routinebarrel-bombing of populated areas by the Assad regime, t0 even wayward U.S. and coalition airstrikes.
71 Syrian refugees found suffocated in truck in Austria
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Reports suggest that the majority of the 71 people who died of suffocation inside a truck found this week in Austria were refugees from Syria. If confirmed, the grisly incident would be yet another bloody episode in Syria's brutal civil war.
The conflict, now in its fifth year, has forced more than 4 million Syrians to flee the country, according to U.N. statistics. An additional 7.6 million Syrians are considered internally displaced, meaning that, since 2011, roughly half of all Syrians have been forced to leave their homes.
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Some European governments have reacted with apprehension and indignation at the prospect of having to accommodate the new influx. Only a few, particularly Germany, have wholeheartedly accepted the responsibilities of dealing with the plight of Syria's refugees.
The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, which has diligently tracked reports of casualties since the start of the conflict, claims that more than 310,000 Syrians have died as a result of the war since 2011. Civilian deaths happen in all sorts of terrible ways — from mass executions and suicide bombings carried about jihadist groups to the almost routinebarrel-bombing of populated areas by the Assad regime, t0 even wayward U.S. and coalition airstrikes.
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