Civilians
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Its credibility in doing so, and therefore its likelihood of success, would be far greater if it were to intervene now to establish a no-fly zone to protect
civilians
in the opposition neighborhoods of Syria’s cities.
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From over 12,000
civilians
deliberately killed in civil wars in 1997 and 1998, a decade later, this figure stands at 4,000.
But then 800,000
civilians
were slaughtered in a matter of just a few months.
To put it differently, for the
civilians
that suffer the consequences of ethnic conflict and civil war, there is no good war and there is no bad peace.
Ninety percent of modern war casualties are
civilians.
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