Idlib and the “Interahamwe aid trap”

https://justworldnews.org/2020/02/20/idlib-and-the-interahamwe-aid-trap/For legitimate international aid organizations, the intense needs of the three million or so residents of Syria’s war-torn Idlib province pose a sharp moral (as well as legal) dilemma, since the many very needy noncombatants there have effectively been held hostage for more than two years by the genocidal coalition of militias led by the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS.) Because of its control over the civilian population–including those who are “indigenous” to the region, those who came from elsewhere in Syria, and those who are family members of the many foreign fighters who have also flocked here  over recent years–the HTS has been able to manipulate aid flows and use the aid goods to give it additional leverage over the local population.