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Reports: Syria using starvation as war tactic- Al-Jazeera
Government accused of blocking food and medicine from entering, and people from leaving, rebel-controlled areas.
The Syrian government has been blocking food and medicine from entering and people from leaving besieged areas, in what one security official calls "starvation until submission campaign", according to a Reuters report.
Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have used partial sieges to root out rebel forces from residential areas during the civil war. But a recent tightening of blockades around areas near the capital Damascus is causing starvation and death, residents and medical staff told the news agency.