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thomski64

(961 posts) Wed Mar 12, 2025, 07:34 AM Mar 2025

I correspond with a young Strian Alawite..

..he's telling me his relatives and friends are being killed. Those who can are fleeing to Lebanon. Does our media have time for anything other than the rampages of Krasnov
and Apartheid Boy?

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I correspond with a young Strian Alawite.. (Original Post) thomski64 Mar 2025 OP

I heard a story about in on NPR Monday Easterncedar Mar 2025 #1

The Guardian is carrying it, too Easterncedar Mar 2025 #2

Sadly, this looks to be revenge mwmisses4289 Mar 2025 #3

Easterncedar

(6,472 posts)

1. I heard a story about in on NPR Monday

Reply to thomski64 (Original post)

Wed Mar 12, 2025, 08:18 AM

Mar 2025

But yes the outrages of the mango Mussolini are using up all the oxygen.

Easterncedar

(6,472 posts)

2. The Guardian is carrying it, too

Reply to thomski64 (Original post)

Wed Mar 12, 2025, 08:36 AM

Mar 2025

The question is, I suppose, what to do?

mwmisses4289

(4,723 posts)

3. Sadly, this looks to be revenge

Reply to thomski64 (Original post)

Wed Mar 12, 2025, 09:35 AM

Mar 2025

The Alawites were the religious sect Assad belonged to, and the brutality they exhibited to others is documented.

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