Atrocity Alert is a weekly publication by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect highlighting situations where populations are at risk of, or are enduring, mass atrocity crimes.
DEVASTATING EFFECTS OF SYRIA EARTHQUAKE EXACERBATED BY LEGACY OF ATROCITIES
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks struck southeastern Türkiye and northern Syria on 6 February, causing massive devastation to a region already desolated by nearly twelve years of conflict and atrocities. The death toll has surpassed 35,000 while the search for survivors continues. On 14 February the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that 8.8 million people in Syria have been affected by the earthquake.
