Why are hospitals targeted in Syria? 'People lose hope'
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In Syria, hospitals that were supposed to be treated as "neutral parties" became targets.
As the war in Syria raged on over the past six years, hospitals and clinics that were supposed to be treated as "neutral parties" became targets that were repeatedly bombed. Hari Sreenivasan discusses the bloody impact of this tactic with Stephen Morrison, director of the new documentary, "The New Barbarianism," and Dr. Ahmad Tarakji of the Syrian American Medical Society.
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Why are hospitals targeted in Syria? 'People lose hope'
Clip: 12/30/2017 | 7m 49sVideo has Closed Captions
As the war in Syria raged on over the past six years, hospitals and clinics that were supposed to be treated as "neutral parties" became targets that were repeatedly bombed. Hari Sreenivasan discusses the bloody impact of this tactic with Stephen Morrison, director of the new documentary, "The New Barbarianism," and Dr. Ahmad Tarakji of the Syrian American Medical Society.
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