It is now over a year since the start of the Syrian anti-government uprising. From the outset the protestors' quest for freedom and greater democracy was met with systematic repression. Now the country is on the brink of full scale civil war.
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German photojournalist Timo Vogt has been inside the country twice over the past few months, joining a group of rebels who entered Syria from Turkey. His images bear witness to the ongoing conflict which reached its bloodiest point so far in the massacre in Houla on May 25-26. (All images: Timo Vogt/Randbild)
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Tracking Syria’s path to armed resistance
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In an interview with swissinfo.ch, the political director of the Syrian Revolution General Commission (SRGC), Nidhal Derouiche, says revolutionaries have no choice but to take up arms against the regime led by President Bashar al-Assad in the wake of recent civilian massacres. In doing so, Derouiche also reveals the deep divisions amongst different revolutionary factions…
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The Houla massacre near Homs has made it all too clear that, despite President Bashar al-Assad’s denials, the regime and its militia are largely responsible for the violence in Syria as it attempts to quell a popular uprising and eliminate a poorly-armed opposition. In a televised speech to parliament on Sunday, Assad denied that his…
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