“It’s Beyond a Humanitarian Crisis, It As An Extermination”

I am redacting names because I do not wish to put these good people in any further danger:

My name is Dr. XXXXXX,

I am a physician from Lattakia. I write to you with a desperate and urgent plea. What is happening in Western Syria right now is beyond a humanitarian crisis, it is an extermination of the Alawite people and other minority groups including Christians. The situation is rapidly escalating and while I write this email, another innocent life is being taken. The killing is STILL ongoing, they are not “unfortunate collateral damage”. IT IS A GENOCIDE.

As a human being, I feel the obligation to raise the voice, especially that many of the survivors are poor, innocent people who cannot put

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