Two and half thousand Europeans plan to march into Aleppo waving white flags in a three month long, 2,000 mile demonstration against the civil war taking place in Syria. This year, like last, has been characterised by the massive flow of people northwards through Europe, many of them Syrians fleeing the bombs of Assad and the opposition factions. But a group of Europeans has decided to make the trek in the other direction in order to bring an end to the war, now in its fifth year. “We’re carrying these white flags to let the whole world know our message: Enough is enough. This war has to stop!” the group say in their manifesto. The march, which departs Berlin on Boxing Day, 26 December, was organised by journalist Anna Alboth. “I was having dinner with Syrian women I know in a refugee centre and they were showing me photos of a lot of people who had died,” she told the BBC. “People like me in safe countries can’t take it any more, and we see this as a chance to transform things. “Refugees who hear about it say that if we are willing to give up our comfortable lives to