The battle for Aleppo
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Rebels broke the siege of Aleppo — briefly -- but not long enough to ease a humanitarian crisis. It's compared to Rwanda or Srebrenica, ongoing atrocities with the rest of the world standing by.
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| 0:00.0 | Here Be Monsters is a show that invites you to explore fear and the unknown. |
| 0:04.7 | I saw her face change. I saw her see where I'd pulled my hair out. |
| 0:10.1 | Psychological warfare was always considered kind of an oddity, something done by freaks. |
| 0:15.5 | On the count of three, we're literally going to step out of our body. |
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| 0:30.6 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:38.8 | The battle over Aleppo brings new pleas for intervention. |
| 0:45.5 | Hello again, I'm Warren Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. |
| 0:49.8 | Rebel forces in Syria won a rare victory this month by getting some food to 300,000 |
| 0:54.9 | starving citizens trapped by constant bombing in the city of Aleppo. |
| 0:58.8 | The U.S. reportedly looked the other way while moderates teamed up with a former affiliate |
| 1:02.8 | of Al-Qaeda. |
| 1:04.2 | Nevertheless, a crisis of massive proportions is still growing. |
| 1:08.3 | America's Holocaust Museum is among those demanding action. |
| 1:11.6 | President Obama's legacy has already been called into question, |
| 1:14.6 | but despite speculation that Russia's involvement is time to the U.S. election, |
| 1:18.7 | the Trump and Clinton campaigns have had very little to say. |
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