Lights out over Syria as war enters fifth year
Much of Syria is 定期的に 急落（する），激減（する）d into debilitating 不明瞭, 専門家s said, 最高潮の場面ing the 規模 of the war's 荒廃 as the 衝突 enters its fifth year.
分析するing 衛星 images, scientists from Wuhan University in 中国 設立する that since March 2011, when the war broke out, "the number of lights 明白な over Syria at night has fallen by 83 パーセント," a 連合 of 130 非，不，無-政治の organizations said in a 声明.
The divided and 荒廃させるd city of Aleppo, once Syria's main 商業の 中心, has been the worst 攻撃する，衝突する with 97 パーセント of night lights 消滅させるd in the past four years.
Syrian girls, carrying school 捕らえる、獲得するs 供給するd by UNICEF, walk past the がれき of destroyed buildings on their way home from school on March 7, 2015 in al-Shaar neighbourhood, in the 反逆者／反逆する-held 味方する of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo ?Zein al-Rifai (AMC/AFP/とじ込み／提出する)
"Syria is entering the dark ages, literally and metaphorically," said former British foreign 長官 David Miliband, now 大統領，／社長 of the International 救助（する） 委員会, which has joined with the 全世界の #withSyria 連合.
Syrian 大統領 Bashar al-Assad's use of バーレル／樽 爆弾s against his own people, in a war which has now （人命などを）奪う，主張するd more than 200,000 lives, "rolls 支援する centuries of human peacekeeping and the history of war," Miliband told reporters on a 会議／協議会 call.
Chinese scientist Xi Li, who led the 研究, said "the night light data never tells lies" -- but 認める that even he had been shocked at their findings.
"More night lights lost means more 追い出すd persons... 破壊 of 組織／基盤／下部構造 and 力／強力にする 不足s," Xi said.
"衛星 imagery is the most 客観的な source of data showing the 荒廃 of Syria on a 国家の 規模," he said.
"Taken from 500 miles above the Earth, these images help us understand the 苦しむing and 恐れる experienced by ordinary Syrians every day as their country is destroyed around them."
The exceptions were the 州s of Damascus and Quneitra, 近づく the Israeli 国境, where the 拒絶する／低下する in light has been 35 パーセント and 47 パーセント それぞれ.
Former US 長官 of 明言する／公表する Madeleine Albright called for a stepped-up かかわり合い from the international community to bring about an end to the war, 説 that Assad was "making a mockery" of UN 決意／決議s.
"What is happening on the ground in Syria is a human 権利s and 人道的な 大災害 of the first order," Albright said, 追加するing that the "規模 of human 苦しむing in Syria has become almost impossible to comprehend."
