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As Syrians were trapped beneath the rubble, a broken UN system was held hostage by the Assad regime

  • Written by Dara Conduit, ARC DECRA Fellow, The University of Melbourne
As Syrians were trapped beneath the rubble, a broken UN system was held hostage by the Assad regimeGhaith Alsayed/AP

While international teams poured into Turkey to mount a furious search and rescue effort following the massive earthquake on February 6, the response on the other side of the border in Syria was catastrophically slow.

For days, Syrians remained stuck under the rubble in sub-zero temperatures waiting for help. However, the only...

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