Despatch from Aleppo: Victims of Syria’s brutal crackdown

By Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International’s senior crisis researcher.

Every protest I observed during three days in Aleppo ended the same way: with the army, security forces and shabiha – the infamous militias who do some of the government’s dirty work – opening fire on non-violent demonstrators who posed no threats to them (or to anybody else).

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