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| Over 30,000 leave militant-controlled E. Ghouta as people continue to flee for safety (LIVE) | |
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| More than 30,000 people have left towns in Eastern Ghouta on Saturday morning, the Russian military said. It also set up a livestream showing humanitarian corridors from land and air. | |
| "At the moment 30,000 people have left [Eastern Ghouta]," Maj. Gen. Vladimir Zolotukhin, the spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry’s Reconciliation Center for Syria, said. He earlier said that "on average over 3,000 people per hour are passing through the humanitarian corridor." | |
| Numerous accounts of people fleeing the violence in Eastern Ghouta began emerging while Western media remained largely silent on what the civilians had to endure while living under the militants’ rule. | |
| “They fired at us, they did not want us to flee at all, they fired at the car wheels so that we could not flee… There was no flour, no bread, no water at all. They let no one out,” a man filmed near Hush Nasri told RT’s Ruptly video agency. | |
| “They [militants] were living with us, next to our houses and inside them. They would open a road amongst the houses to be able to move. They would not leave, and we would not dare to say ‘get out.’ Then the shelling was over and it is us who became part of the human shields. We were not allowed to move,” another woman said. | |
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