Regina doctor hopes Canada does more to help Syria
While the photo of a dead Syrian boyhas grabbed the attention of the world, a Syrian man living in Regina says it fails to show the big picture of what’s happening to people in his home country.
“The people of the world saw this picture — horrific as it is — but I think they also, they need to know that in the last month only, 302 children were killed by the Syrian forces – 302,” said Dr. Ayman Aboguddah. “Every morning, every day, and sometimes some nights, the Syrian helicopter of the Syrian army, they are … dropping explosive barrels on civilian areas and killing families.”
Aboguddah says 17,268 children have been killed in this way since Syrians first began protesting in Damascus in March 2011.
Aboguddah physically left Syria in 1978, but the Regina doctor says his home country has never left his heart.