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September 11, 2018

U.N. Warns Offensive in Idlib Could Lead to Worst Lost of Life in 21st Century
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A top United Nations official is warning that an all-out Syrian
government ground offensive against Idlib province-the last major
rebel-held territory in Syria-could lead to the worst loss of life in
the 21st century.

Mark Lowcock: "There needs to be ways of dealing with this problem that
don't turn the next few months in Idlib into the worst humanitarian
catastrophe, with the biggest loss of life, of the 21st century. … We
had the tsunami in 2004, which killed a quarter million people, roughly;
we had the atrocious famine in Somalia in 2011 which killed another
quarter million people. We must, we must-it is not acceptable to have
huge loss of life in Idlib over the next period."



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