Syrian Assembly Of Manitoba: Relatives

Mai Dept: The pain of Syrians in harm's way is being felt by relatives in Winnipeg watching helplessly, and almost hopelessly, from afar, according to Winnipeg Free Press. "She's terrified," said Mai, who calls her grandma near Damascus every day and can hear the fighting and a Syrian boy, who fled his home in Marea due to fighting between the Syrian army and the rebels, is adorned in the colors of the Syrian revolutionary flag as he and his family take refuge at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing, in hopes of entering one of the refugee camps in Turkey, near the Syrian town of Azaz, Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen CP "The situation is terrible," said Mai, a member of the Syrian Assembly of Manitoba. "A lot of children are being killed," said the 26-year-old new mom with a month-old baby. Mai doesn't want her last name published because she fears speaking out against the Assad regime could lead to reprisals against relatives there, such as her 70-year-old grandmother. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.