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Destruction: This aerial view shows the destruction in the al-Khalidiyah neighbourhood of Homs, which has seen some of the heaviest fighting as government forces bid to flush rebels into the open
Washington Post: Syria’s ruined cities will need decades, not years, to recover from war
The end of Syria's brutal civil war is not in sight. The combatants are locked in a grinding, attritional battle that is as complex as it is cruel. More than 250,000 Syrians have been killed over the past five years, and roughly half of the country's citizens have been forced to flee their homes.
Some of Syria's most important urban centers have been devastated by endless street fighting and aerial bombardment. Just see my colleague Loveday Morris's stark accounts and photographs from inside the country earlier this year.
While diplomats wrangle in Geneva over a nascent, faltering peace process kick-started by the United Nations, other organizations are scratching their heads over the huge challenge of reconstructing and rebuilding a country that has been torn apart. In 2014, a U.N. study suggested that it would take Syria at least three decades to recover.
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WNU Editor: The physical destruction will be rebuilt in a decade or two .... but it will take the passage of multiple generations for the bitterness and anger that this war has spawned to dissipate .... and even then .... a hundred years from now .... emotions will probably still be raw.
2 comments:
They can rebuild as fast as Germany with the right attitude.
With the wrong attitude the can be subject to Merkelcide.
Well said Aizino, well said.
And believe me, they'll have the right attitude. As my Syrian friend said, there will be "absolutely zero time for bullshit". Take what you want from that.
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