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Madaya
Topic Started: Jan 12 2016, 02:29 AM (68 Views)
Catseye
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Madaya until recently had attracted wealthy Syrians many of which have summer mansions in the town.

It is located about 40 kilometres (25 mi) northwest of Damascus. Madaya had a population of 9,371. Mostly Sunni residents.

Since July 2015, the town was reported to be besieged by a combination of Syrian forces loyal to the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and the allied sectarian Lebanese Shia militia Hezbollah. The United Nations had last provided humanitarian aid to Madaya in late October 2015.

In early January 2016, the town became an object of a global campaign by the Syrian opposition to bring to light the siege of the town. The Assad government . . . called for aid to reenter the besieged town. On 11 January 2016, the humanitarian aid convoy entered the town in a UN-brokered deal that saw another convoy simultaneously enter two northwestern settlements, Al-Fu'ah and Kafriya, besieged by anti-government rebels.
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The above I lifted from Wiki. The site has a notation that the information is questionable, "more of a debate than an encyclopedic summary."

Population 9300, and today's BBC story says 40,000 people who have been trapped for six months by a government blockade and without aid since October.

Presumably the "since October" refers to the last UN aid brought there.

There's a color-coded map here which shows who's besieging whom in this country:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35278173
"How awful a knowledge of the truth can be." -- Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
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Mikhailoh
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While we dither about who can go where, we could have been helping these folks and others. That is if our real agenda was humanitarian.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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