Thread by @SyrianACD

Demographic change is not only about the numbers.

Different methods of displacement and the trauma that goes with the brutality are usually deployed to make people leave their homes and stay away. 1/ syacd.org/wp-content/upl…

New reality is manufactured through violence and aggressive changes in the sectarian or religious spirit and custom of the communities, where native residents feel as strangers in their own places of birth. 2/

Economic and social pressures exerted on specific groups, while at the same time privileging other groups which are being settled as a replacement demographic; all these factors constitute elements of demographic change that numbers can’t capture. 3/

In an attempt to get a more recent picture of the impact of the regime’s policy of demographic change, we sought to take a snapshot in several communities across Syria to see how they have been affected by the policy. 4/

We conducted interviews with people from Aleppo, Homs, Al-Qusayr, Deir Ezzor, Salamiyah and Daraya to try and illustrate the lasting impact of the Syrian regime's policy on these communities.

Read their interviews and the full analysis in our briefing:

syacd.org/demographic-ch…