The forgotten children of Syria

And today we see Assad joining again the Arab League. No respect for the people of Syria and their suffering.

Children gasping for breath following chemical attacks. Children burried under the rubble following barrel bombing on civilian targets. Children love their childhood in refugee camps. Children growing in the darkness of a 12 year nightmare.

Did we forget?

Whatever the reason and justification, history will not forgive or forget.

CNN 2 hours ago (5 April 2017)
World leaders expressed shock and outrage Tuesday at reports of a suspected chemical attack in northwestern Syria that killed scores of civilians, with one UK official suggesting the incident amounted to a war crime.

They still suspect... trying to balance between their priority of fighting Daesh and making a deal with the devil.
Did they look at the picture? Did they glance at his television screen? Did they notice the innocence slaughtered?
Did they realize that the children that died of suffocation are not different from their children. They used to play with toys, study, break things around the house, get grounded, cry and laugh.

If they did, what did they feel? Did it move a small part of their soul?

I doubt because it is not the first time it happens.
It is not the first time I write about it...
I do not want to lose hope, but I am close.
It is an ugly world.

Abdulhamid Yussef cradles his twins Aya and Ahmad before they are buried in Idlib following a Sarin gas attack TELEGRAPH.CO.UK

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Thursday, August 21, 2014

In remembrance of Syrian children that died in the chemical attack

One year ago today, hundreds of children took a deep breath, had a seizure, coughed and died of suffocation.
They were the victims of a chemical gas attack.
Their crime was to be the children of Syrians seeking freedom.
The world looked upon their tender corpses and turned a blind eye.
They were not Kurd, Christian, Yezidi or member of any minority.
They were unlucky to be born to Syrian Arab Sunni parents who are the majority in Syria.
They were unlucky because their death did not threaten the interests of powerful nations.
They will never get justice and they are seldom mourned or remembered.
Poor poor little angels, my heart bleeds for you

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Friday, August 21, 2015

In remembrance of the forgotten children of Ghouta

A team of UN chemical weapons inspectors have confirmed that the nerve agent Sarin was used in an attack on the Ghouta agricultural belt around Damascus on the morning of 21 August. 2013.UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told the UN Security Council that he believed the attack constituted a war crime. The UN report, he said, detailed the "most significant confirmed use of chemical weapons against civilians since Saddam Hussein used them" in Halabja in 1988.

That was two years ago.
Until today nobody was held responsible, even investigations were not launched.

Obama and Putin agreed that the only punishment was to confiscate the weapon of the killer and let him free to kill more and more children.

Assad gave up his chemical weapons and improved the techniques of indiscriminate barrel bombing.

Almost exactly two years after the devastating chemical weapons attacks, Assad targeted the same region and the world did not take action.
"The government's bombing of (Douma) yesterday is devastating," The UN's Syria envoy, Staffan de Mistura said. "Hitting crowded civilian markets killing almost one hundred of its own citizens by a government is unacceptable in any circumstances."
Sunday's series of raids on the town of Douma was one of the bloodiest regime attacks in Syria's four-year war.

A Syrian father who lost his son in the horror of  the two years after declared
"I do not understand why they got rid of the chemical weapons. They were more humane that the actual barrel bombs the regime is using. At least chemical weapons did not blow the children to pieces. Those whose children were killed by Sarin two years ago were able to hold their children and kiss them before burying them. I was not able to. My son was torn to pieces by the barrel bombing."