Since 2012, Syrian regime has been implementing its ‘kneel or starve’ policy of systematically besieging anti-regime areas to break their will & force them to surrender, which often ended with massive forced displacement, and #Aleppo was not an exception. 1/ 
The Syrian regime began a relentless campaign with intensive barrel bombs & air strikes causing large-scale destruction & damage to civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, not to mention loss of civilian life, with 2.5M people in dire need of humanitarian assistance. 2/
The Assad regime alongside its Russian and Iranian allies were able to regain control over Aleppo by breaking it. The price was destructing the city and forcibly displacing at least 110,000 people from east Aleppo, who were subjected to war crimes during the siege. 3/
The notorious 'green buses' mark the forced displacement the people of east Aleppo had been subjected to, where they had to either flee their homes to the unknown, or stay and face persecution and oppression by the regime. 4/
SACD published a report about reality in Assad-held areas which concluded that returnees & most people living in these areas live in fear & feel vulnerable & unsafe due to arbitrary arrests, forced conscription, extortion and absence of basic services. 5/ syacd.org/vengeance-repr…
The mass displacement of all Syrians, including the people of Aleppo, is not merely a consequence of the conflict, but also a systematic policy by the Syrian regime & its allies to shift populations and change demographic reality of Syria to build areas with loyal communities. 6/
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