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Even before the chemical attack, the Zamalka neighborhood of Damascus suffered government bombardment.

Weapons inspectors have nothing to offer residents of destroyed Damascus neighborhood

Conflict & Justice

The chemical weapons inspectors now working in Syria say the government of Bashar al-Assad is cooperating. But that’s cold comfort to residents in the Damascus neighborhood of Zamalka, where there are endless blocks of fallen concrete and twisted metal, buildings that are sliced in half and remnants of lives that used to be.

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