“Let me illustrate the size of our suffering. This beautiful city, New York, has a population of about eight and a half million people. Imagine that more than two million people were forced to flee and the city had no teachers, doctors, postal workers.”
– Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, recipients of CPJ’s 2015 International Press Freedom Award
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