if london were aleppo - buckingham palace destroyed, 4.3 million dead or displaced - visualiser

BERLIN (Reuters)-The bullet-Bombed.
The buildings in Aleppo may have little resemblance to the glittering skyscrapers in London, but the two cities once had a lot in common, and German artist Hans Haq grabbed that and brought the reality of the war home.
Six months ago in Syria
Civil war in Aleppo--like London --
It is the largest city in China and an important business center.
But unlike London, half of Aleppo is now actually a ghost city.
To get the European people out of pain, data visualization hackers used United Nations satellite data on the destruction of Aleppo to map the same maps of London and Berlin.
"It's hard for me to understand the extent to which Aleppo was destroyed in the news.
I want to project this information onto something I personally know and I can refer to it.
So I chose Berlin and London.
London has suffered the same damage as Aleppo and the entire block will be erased from the map-
In this alternative reality, Buckingham Palace, the Olympic Stadium and the Tower of London are ruins.
This is an echo of what happened in Aleppo.
When Syrian forces seized the city from rebels in December 2016, the area was in ruins.
What is not shown on the map is casualties.
Since the beginning of the Syrian civil war, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has estimated that the population of Aleppo has dropped from 2 million to 1.
3 million after people started returning to the city.
In London, a similar decline will see about 4.
3 million people were killed or displaced. Feras al-
The chairman of the Aleppo Industrial Association, Shehabi, told Reuters on February that the situation in his city was "very similar to Berlin in 1946 or Tokyo in 1946 ".
So you have a destroyed city.
"Still, hackers are reluctant to be more modern.
The devastated city of Aleppo during World War II.
"I don't want to compare with history because I don't think you can compare the pain people suffer directly.
But I can imagine people who remember what it was like (World War Two)
"There is no need for such a map," he said . ". (
Reported by schreek Heinz, written by Rosanna Philpott, editor Jeremy Gunte in London)