http://www.unz.com/pcockburn/trapped-in-eastern-ghouta-how-both-sides-stop-people-from-escaping/
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Saturday, March 3, 2018
" Trapped in eastern Ghouta: How both sides stop people from escaping, " by Patrick Cockburn - The Unz Review
"I live in Douma [in the north of Eastern Ghouta] and have three children who are all under 15," he says. "I tried to send my family out, but the opposition militants prevent all families leaving." He adds that even the extensive networks of independent smugglers, who used to bring goods secretly into Eastern Ghouta and sometimes smuggle people out, would not help him because they work with the rebel movements in control of Eastern Ghouta...."
