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Siege of Daraa

25 April 2011 (ended 2011) · Syria

Part of: Syrian revolution

Wikidata classes on our event-class list: siege (all its classes: Wikidata item)

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The siege of Daraa occurred within the context of the 2011 Arab Spring protests in Syria, in which Daraa was the center of unrest. On 25 April 2011, the Syrian Army began a ten-day siege of the city, an operation that helped escalate the uprising into an armed rebellion and subsequent civil war.

The Syrian Army's siege involved tanks, helicopters, and up to 6,000 troops. More than 1,000 people were arrested and more than 244 people were killed, many of them children.

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