Refugee Camps: Syrian-Montrealer Faisal Alazam

Syrian-Montrealer Faisal Alazam: Syrian-born Faisal Alazam returned home to Montreal earlier this week from a visit to refugee camps along the Turkish border. , according to CBC. Half of the two million people who have fled Syria since the start of the civil war two years ago are children many of them orphans. Syrian-Montrealer Faisal Alazam visited a refugee camp on the Turkish-Syrian border. Faisal Alazam As a week of peace talks on Syria's civil war ended in deadlock in Geneva, a Montreal man vowed to go back to Syrian refugee camps to help the maimed and orphaned children he says have been all but abandoned there. Syria talks: Assad adviser rejects call for transitional government Syrias civil war: key facts, important players "I had to see things with my own eyes," said Alazem, director of the Syrian Canadian Council of Montreal. One million refugee children (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.