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Every time Chu Chen (朱震) flew deep into enemy territory, he knew there was a good chance he wasn’t coming back. With two-thirds of the Black Bat Squadron 148 members perishing between 1953 and 1967, the odds were not on his side.
Chu had several brushes with death during his six years with the CIA-supported Bats, once surviving only because his Chinese attacker ran out of ammunition. But he pulled through each time and completed a total of 33 missions, the squadron’s second highest. He lived to the age of 86, receiving a presidential
Published date: 14 January 2021 12:32 UTC | Last update: 2 months 1 week ago
Displaced people around Syria are coming to grips with reports about their properties being auctioned off by the government, with many feeling powerless and unable to confront the land theft from cramped tents, far away from home.
“Our lands, which we have spent our lives cultivating and repairing, are now being stolen, but we cannot do anything,” said Abu Rayyan al-Hamwe, a displaced civilian from al-Tamanah town in rural Hama. Our lands, which we have spent our lives cultivating and repairing, are now being stolen, but we cannot do anything
- Abu Rayyan al-Hamwe, displaced Syrian