Starvation Grips Syrian Town of Madaya, Under Siege by Bashar Assad's Regime (VIDEO)

This is getting to be like Bosnia in the 1990s. Bosnians were rounded up into camps wearing Holocaust-style striped prisoner's fatigues.

At the Washington Post, "23 starve to death in besieged Syrian town, medical charity says":

BEIRUT — Aid agencies expressed alarm Thursday about dire conditions in a besieged town west of Damascus where people have been eating cats and grass to stay alive and as many as 23 people are reported to have died of hunger.

No food has arrived in the rural town of Madaya since October, and desperate residents have posted photographs on the Internet showing frail, skeletal corpses and emaciated people, including children.

The medical charity Doctors Without Borders said 23 people have died of starvation since Dec. 1 at a clinic the group supports in Madaya, six of them infants less than 1 year old.

The town has become “an open-air prison,” Brice de le Vingne, director of operations for Doctors Without Borders, said in a statement. Desperate people who try to flee have been injured or killed by bullets or by land mines planted around the town, he added...

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