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Protest for Aleppo, Berlin

Syrian citizens and Berlin residents take to the streets of the German capital to protest the ongoing attack against East Aleppo on the 1st of October, 2016. The eastern part of Syria's second largest cities have been held by the opposition to Assad's regime for years, and are currently under siege by Syrian government forces and its allies, and under heavy aerial bombing from the Russian air force, which has been accused of deliberately targeting civilians, hospitals and residential building, often using heavy ordnance such as bunker-buster bombs capable of demolishing entire buildings and hitting underground shelters. The besieging forces deny these accusation, and claim to be fighting Islamist extremists, whose presence in East Aleppo is not denied by civilians living there. According to activists and mainstream media, hundreds of civilians have been killed since the latest ceasefire collapsed about a week ago, and an endless stream of images of widespread devastation and civilian casualties has been streaming out of the besieged neighbourhoods ever since. (Photo by Janos Chiala/NurPhoto)

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