The Syrian crisis has reached an unwelcome milestone, with 10 years having passed since peaceful protests against President Bashar Assad’s government first began in March of 2011. Those protests sparked a full-blown civil war that has killed around half a million people and displaced half the pre-war population of 23 million, 5 million of whom are now refugees.
Mike Seawright, the Founder and Executive Director of ReliefAid, spoke to Susie Ferguson.
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