Ten years since start of Syrian crisis

Published: March 15, 2021, 5:47 p.m.

The Syrian crisis has reached an unwelcome milestone, with 10 years having passed since peaceful protests against President Bashar Assad's government first began in March of 2011. Those protests sparked a full-blown civil war that has killed around half a million people and displaced half the pre-war population of 23 million, 5 million of whom are now refugees. Mike Seawright, the founder and executive director of Relief Aid, spoke to Susie Ferguson.