Children Heading to School Targeted by Snipers in Syria
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[quote=bbc.co.uk]Bustan al-Qasr is the last remaining crossing point between the rebel and regime-held sides of Aleppo. Snipers are rife and the atmosphere tense, yet hundreds are forced to use it every day to get to work, to study and buy food.
"Today, at about midday, I treated someone who had been shot in the arm," Sam tells me. "He was a child, they usually are. I think that the snipers are aiming for kids, just kids."
Sam, crouching behind sandbags at the Bustan al-Qasr crossing point, is the only doctor on hand to treat those targeted by the snipers. He is 25, speaks in an urbane North American drawl and has humorous eyes twinkling above his surgical mask. He is the son of Syrian exiles who settled in Canada. "I was in the final year of my studies to become a cardiac surgeon," he tells me.[/quote]
[quote=bbc.co.uk]When shots ring out, the sea of people in the marketplace parts as most people press themselves against the walls of the buildings - as if, somehow, that will save them.
But the fatalistic ones just carry on walking straight down the middle of the road in a gesture of defiance.[/quote]
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23744948[/url]
This is a whole other world to what we know.
[QUOTE=Gustafa;41880089]But the fatalistic ones just carry on walking straight down the middle of the road in a gesture of defiance.[/img][/QUOTE]
Sure takes some massive balls to be all like "You're shooting at me? Well fuck you, I'ma just go right back to what I was doin'.".
[QUOTE=Cureless;41880114]Sure takes some massive balls to be all like "You're shooting at me? Well fuck you, I'ma just go right back to what I was doin'.".[/QUOTE]
I guess after so long in such a hard place, it can be taken for either defiance or apathy.
How is this funny Lufttygger306? Please enlighten me.
[QUOTE=Gustafa;41880238]How is this funny Lufttygger306? Please enlighten me.[/QUOTE]
Lol ignore him.
But yeah, like what Cureless said, the ones who keep walking are making more than a statement. Things really need to get better, man.
This is fucked
They've been doing this for years
[QUOTE=Gustafa;41880238]How is this funny Lufttygger306? Please enlighten me.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=thelurker1234;41880357]go to general settings and disable ratings, it will make your life easier, also disable show signatures, fuck signatures.[/QUOTE]
Holy shit, I wasn't even aware we could do that.
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We dont even have signatures though. Or do we?
We don't.
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Forgive me for posting this but, my reaction:
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How can these people be expected to go back to normal after this. When the government or whoever it is decides the war is over there are going to be tens of thousands of people who will never be right with it. I am desensitized but I cried with my wife over this. What could the kids possibly have to do with this conflict
What kind of piece of shit shoots at school children.
[QUOTE=CommanderPT;41880649]What kind of piece of shit shoots at school children.[/QUOTE]
Same people that deny women from going to school.
Education in the middle east is the exact opposite of what any terror group wants, as it promotes critical thinking which in return lowers the amount of people they can recruit.
There is very good quote to explain this quickly: "Ignorance is strength"
[QUOTE=Gustafa;41880089]This is a whole other world to what we know.[/QUOTE]
This is the world we live in. We just don't know it because we choose to be ignorant to it.
[QUOTE=CommanderPT;41880649]What kind of piece of shit shoots at school children.[/QUOTE]
American teenagers.
link in the OP isn't the correct article.
It's this [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23696829[/url]
[quote=bbc news]Until recently, the checkpoint was controlled by a group of rogue rebel soldiers who tried to extort money from the already desperate people using it.
Now it has been taken over by Ahrar Sureya, one of the city's largest rebel brigades. It is progress for the people who use the crossing point, but also a sign of how fluid and unstable Aleppo's testosterone-charged local politics has become.
On a corner where the main street meets a side road he points to the buildings where the snipers are stationed, in a government-owned tower block, in an apartment building, in a minaret. [/quote]
I'm confused as to who's doing the shooting, goverment soldiers or rogue soldiers? I understand the crossing is under rebel control now but it seems so fucked up that goverment soldiers would shoot civilians just for being somewhere the need to cross to get to school, work or food.
[img]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/69308000/jpg/_69308046_sniperprotection_getty.jpg[/img]
atleast someone put up defences
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