History Matters: Plight of Syrian refugees parallels similar sagas throughout the ages

Red River Radio | By Gary Joiner, Ph.D.

Published February 9, 2016 at 7:44 AM CST

The Civil War in Syria, which by all accounts is worse than the mainstream media are reporting, is creating a human tragedy not seen on this scale since the Killing Fields of Cambodia, the tribal conflicts of Rwanda, and before that the Holocaust. Commentator Gary Joiner reflects on the Syrian refugee crisis.

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Gary Joiner, Ph.D.

Gary Joiner is a cartographer and an associate professor of history at LSU in Shreveport. He is the author or editor of 12 books including “Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862,” “One Damn Blunder From Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign in 1864,” “Through the Howling Wilderness: The Red River Campaign and Union Failure in 1864,” “Red River Steamboats,” and “Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: Mississippi Squadron.”

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