Special envoy to Sarmada (Syria) and Reyhanli (Turkey)
The explosions resound in the distance, like thunderclaps that the shipwrecked of Sarmada can no longer hear. About fifteen kilometers separate the front line from this congested town close to the Turkish border, where thousands of Syrians chased by the bombings of the regime and the Russian air force have found refuge in recent weeks.
On Thursday March 5, a few hours before the announcement of a cease-fire negotiated in Moscow by Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Poutine, at least fifteen civilians were killed by an air strike near Maarat Misrin. But in Deyaa camp, whose sewage floods the fields with their gloomy hue and their stench, the war seems strangely distant. In recent weeks, 520 families from the village of Hass have fled the shelling of the Syrian army to settle on this plot of land on the edge of the city. Those who can afford it have piled up some
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