Last night Carol Off of CBC’s As it Happens interviewed a young father in Aleppo whose wife and nursing baby are ‘trapped’ in the city. He knows the danger of being there but he has promised his friends that he would not abandon the city and people he loves. He scrounges the city for food and breaks up old furniture for firewood to keep the family warm. His situation seems hopeless as the army has now claimed almost a third of the city and continues it barrel bombing street by street. O Silent night.
I try at least once a day to read news from Al Jazeera which is a major news source out of the Middle East and I find that I am reading a perspective on the news that I would not get otherwise. For one thing it keeps in my mind and heart the horrific situation that is unfolding in Syria, and in Aleppo particularly as the Syrian national army of the ruthless Bashar al-Assad and Russian supported military continue to systematically kill their own people while the world stands by and watches. I was thinking that it would be appropriate to tell the story as it unfolds using the old Simon and Garfunkel song recorded in 1966 Silent Night/7 O’clock News .
Last night Carol Off of CBC’s As it Happens interviewed a young father in Aleppo whose wife and nursing baby are ‘trapped’ in the city. He knows the danger of being there but he has promised his friends that he would not abandon the city and people he loves. He scrounges the city for food and breaks up old furniture for firewood to keep the family warm. His situation seems hopeless as the army has now claimed almost a third of the city and continues it barrel bombing street by street. O Silent night.
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Mark
11/29/2016 08:39:52 am
Thank you for this.
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