In what would be one of the final stories for Hungary’s largest daily newspaper Nepszabadsag, veteran journalist Gabor Miklos interviewed AlHakam Shaar and Armenak Tokmajyan, fellows at CEU’s Shattuck Center on Conflict Negotiation and Recovery at the School of Public Policy on the current and historical demographic make up of Aleppo and Assad’s strategy in targeting the city hosting 53,000 besieged families, who represent only one quarter of the original population – the rest having fled. The last month has seen intensified bombing of Aleppo by the Syrian regime and Russia, with 400 civilians dying in one week.

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