
Syria's Stolen Memories
Kerning Cultures
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The Looting in Syria
The looting starts in two thousand 12 and i think a lot of it was what we refer to as subsistence looting. Every syrian knows some one whose uncle from their great grandfather from his second wife came across a buried pot of gall so there's this gun of urban myth almost you know that there's this gold somewhere. So people start to dig around and look for it. And and so we see this extensive looting start to spread right across syria. But amra was watching this from half way across the world, and it was basically impossible for him tget a clear picture of what was actually going on inside his home country. He cofounded an emergency initiative called day after and started scouting
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