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Radio 4,1 min

Syrian war: 'We don't want to die'

World at One

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Five years on from the start of the Syrian civil war the BBC's chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet returned to the town of Daraa in Southern Syria where the first of the protests began. There she met a man whose mother left to go to Jordan, his brother went to Dubai and his cousin went to Europe. But they all "wish to come back to Syria... because they love their country." (Image: Smoke billows following reported air strikes by Syrian government forces in the rebel-held area of Daraa, on 17 February, 2016. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

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