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The al-Houla Massacre: Syria as Algeria?

Matt Carr | Posted 28.07.2012 | UK Politics
Matt Carr

Al-Houla is likely to prove a defining moment in a political confrontation that began as a protest against the dynastic entitlement of the Assad family and now increasingly overlaps with sectarian tit-for-tat savagery, and whose violence is likely to get much, much worse until - or if - it stops.