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Ted Deutch: “Five million have fled, 6 million internally displaced, over half a million dead. How is it that we are numb?”

On the recordMarch 10, 2020
Five million have fled, 6 million internally displaced, over half a million dead. How is it that we are numb?
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Ted Deutch
Democratic · Florida

Editor's note · Context

Deutch expresses concern over the global indifference to the Syrian crisis.

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