With the fighting over the Syrian city of Aleppo declared finished on Thursday, civilians displaced over the last four-plus years of fighting began returning to bombed out districts en masse, hoping to find their homes intact, or at least comparatively so, and hoping to reclaim their lives in a now calm city.
Not everyone has been lucky, as some of the returnees reported that their homes were more or less entirely destroyed, and with the Syrian Army’s bulldozers feverishly removing rubble, some are finding empty lots where their homes once stood. One local quoted by AFP insisted that “houses can be rebuilt” and that she was still glad to be back in the city.
Over four years of fighting have not been kind to the city, with different factions entering and being expelled over that time and a lot of fighting over what has ended up a collection of barricaded neighborhoods, none of them truly spared from airstrikes and artillery exchanges.
Reconstruction in this environment, particularly with the outskirts of Aleppo still contested, is going to be a long, painful process. Still, those who survived the fighting remain resilient, and hopeful that peace has returned to the city after so long.
And just think how Aleppo would be now, if our President had not made his “regime change” demand five years ago and had not been supporting the Al Qaeda-led “rebels” who have been forcibly occupying Aleppo for the past four years.
Dec 11, 2016 The Agenda of Corporate Media Is Regime Change in Syria – UN Press Conf Goes off Script
Independent journalist Eva Bartlett sets a smug Norwegian reporter straight during a UN Syria Mission press conference. Please take 3 minutes from your busy schedule and watch this amazing video.
https://youtu.be/AisvBNXPdG8
I believe Eva But these lies has gotten to be almost automatic with me I learned the same thing in Yugoslavia Kosovo , Bosnia and Croatia Where ever US NATO, UN, policy went The high priced liars came along . Should have seen Serbian war criminal president take the professional liars apart in the Hague court . for almost 5 years he beat them bad almost every day . But it never showed up on The US news . Not a word just a repeat of the crimes he was charged with . With the information we have been fed about the war in Syria This is very scary world . Brexit in England and Trump in the USA is a indication that the people no longer believe their government . The government has gone so far as to tell us Blue is Red and Black is white .Who are you going to believe your government or your lying eyes .