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Updated: 14/03/2018 - 17:00

Video. “Syrian refugees are the victims. They’re not the perpetrators.”

For more on the situation in Syria seven years since the war started, we’re joined by Volker Turk, the UNHCR's Assistant High Commissioner for Protection

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