(New York Times) Rick Gladstone and Stephen Castle - A UN commission on rights abuses in Syria offered grim new details on Friday of the government's repression, including the uprooting of extended clans and villages forced to flee into neighboring countries by security forces bent on crushing armed resistance. The UN refugee agency in Geneva has reported 17,000 Syrian refugees in Turkey, 16,000 in Lebanon and at least 8,000 in Jordan.
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