Fettered Syria: Left With Children, But No Childhood!
9 yrs. old boy’s rhetoric appeal for Syria’s freedom in a non violent protest against the belligerents. “Then, when I was 14, every day for six months, I was raped. I tried to kill myself. How am I telling you this without crying? because I was out of tears”- Aklas, 17 yrs. (Yazidi survivor). “I feel like a grown up. Now, that I’m the only breadwinner of the family”- Ibrahim, 12 yrs. Refugee. “I like to be alone and be able to go out and no one kidnaps me. There be no fighters or anything, and no bombing.”- Razan, 7 yrs. The statements by these young victims of the Syrian civil war are alive stories which recall the words of Pam Leo, “Let’s raise children, who won’t have to recover from their childhoods” Refugee children forced to stay in abysmal conditions at the Syrian and Turkish borders. March 15, 2011, the day when all hell broke loose for Syria. The day that no one could predict would be the beginning of a constant doom for the peopl...