[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura warned on Thursday that the eastern part of Aleppo may be "totally destroyed" by the year’s end, vowing that the international body will not allow the Syrian city to be another Rwanda or Srebrenica.
In what is known as the Rwandan genocide, an estimated 500,000‐1,000,000 Rwandans were killed in 1994. The Srebrenica massacre, meanwhile, witnessed the killing of more than 8,000 Moslem Bosnians, mainly men and boys, in and around the town of Srebrenia during the Bosnian War in 1995.
De Mistura said if Syria and Russia do not accept offer to end fighting in Aleppo, history will judge their use of turbans as an "alibi" to destroy the city.
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UN humanitarian advisor Jan Egeland said at least 376 were killed and 1,266 maimed in the past two weeks in eastern Aleppo, and there is still no greenlight from the Syrian government to send aid convoys anywhere in the country in October.
De Mistura says total number of opposition fighters in eastern Aleppo is maximum is 8,000.
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