9/14/15 Articles labeled from 1-8 week one doing articles 1-2
#1 Uprising turns violent
In March 2011 pro-democracy
erupted in the southern city of Deraa after a group of teenagers vandalized a
school to promote slogans, which made the security forces really upset. That’s
the time when they open fired on the teens. Some of them even got killed, which
made the whole city erupt in a battle with the government basically arguing
saying the way they punished the kids was not okay. By July 2011 hundreds of
thousands were taking to the streets across the country. Now I do agree that the teenagers should be punished for what they did but killing them was not the way to go about it.
#2 Descent into civil war
The country just starts to get into so much violence it began a war where the fighting even reached the capital Damascus and the second city of Aleppo in 2012. By June of 2013 90,000 people had died from the war. Within the next year the number had more than doubled to 191,000 people but the number doesn't stop there! By August of 2015 the number is 250,000 people dead! Now the conflict has gotten heated within the government also, people are going towards President Assad. Which I don't blame them because he got them into the war. It's crazy to even think about the number of people losing there lives in this war. It makes me very sad to even think about it.
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