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Sarah Hedgecock · 02/26/14 11:15AM

[Palestinian residents of the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus gather to await a food distribution from the United Nations Relief and Work Agency in January. Image via UNRWA Archives.]

Syria's Bloodiest Day of Protests

Jim Newell · 04/22/11 02:47PM

Protesters in Syria came out in coordinated masses across the country to protest today, but the government's police apparatus was prepared to meet them—with live ammunition. Unconfirmed estimates of between 40 and 70 deaths are being reported, making it the bloodiest day in the five weeks since protests began. And it's only been one day since the Assad regime lifted the country's suffocating, decades-old emergency rule.