Syria: Raqqa War of Annihilation

From amid the rubble of Raqqa, civilians are asking why USled Coalition forces destroyed the city, killing hundreds of civilians in the process of liberating them from the armed group calling itself Islamic State (IS) and then granted IS fighters safe passage and impunity. The accounts detailed in Amnesty Internationals report, War of annihilation: Devastating Toll on Civilians, Raqqa Syria, leave gaping holes in the Coalitions insistence that their forces did enough to minimize civilian harm. The report details four emblematic cases of civilian families who were brutally impacted by the relentless aerial bombardment. Between them, they lost 90 relatives and neighbours 39 from a single family almost all of them killed by Coalition air strikes. These families deserve justice.