Friday, December 30, 2016

So were did all those Syrians in East Aleppo go?

Joshua Landis (@joshua_landis) tweeted at 9:43 pm on Thu, Dec 29, 2016:
Of 111,000 displaced fr east Aleppo, 74,951 or 2/3 went to Gov-controlled areas, & 36,086 to reb areas. v @aronlund https://t.co/TCBC0JxZUv
(https://twitter.com/joshua_landis/status/814557370659569664?s=09)

PS I have no doubt that Liz Sly of the Post and various other Western correspondents in Beirut would come up with some idiotic reasoning to explain this discrepancy: a vote with their feet (against the rebels).