Thursday, December 6, 2012

Hunger Is Starting To Stalk The Streets Of Aleppo

 

As Fighting Subsides, Aleppo Residents Find Little Left -- CNN Aleppo, Syria 
(CNN) -- In a small village outside of Aleppo where we are hunkered down for the night, our host apologizes profusely. He doesn't have enough blankets for us and it's bitterly cold. He and his family were forced to flee their home in the city to their unfurnished, humble residence in the countryside with nothing but the clothes they could carry. He spent 25,000 Syrian pounds -- around $300 -- to pay a truck driver just to bring out the bedroom furniture and a TV from their Aleppo home. He couldn't afford another run. We went to stay with his brother, who was also full of apologies because he couldn't offer us tea. The power was out and there was no cooking gas.  

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My Comment: And winter is just starting. Here is another story of a family living underground.

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