OUT OF CONTROL

Fresh Assad Gov’t Strikes Bring Syrian Death Toll to 250 in 48 Hours

“We are standing before the massacre of the 21st century,” said a doctor in East Ghouta.

One of the deadliest weeks in the seven years of Syria’s grueling civil war is getting worse. Bashar al-Assad's forces are continuing to drop rockets and fire-bombs in the rebel enclave of East Ghouta, outside the capital of Damascus. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that deaths on Tuesday and Wednesday morning have brought the death toll to around 250 people over the past 48 hours, and a total of seven hospitals have also been hit. “We are standing before the massacre of the 21st century,” said a doctor in eastern Ghouta, according to The Guardian. “If the massacre of the 1990s was Srebrenica, and the massacres of the 1980s were Halabja and Sabra and Shatila, then eastern Ghouta is the massacre of this century right now.”