Canadian Press and Syria

Romeo Dallaire: Its best-before date was several years ago. "It an outrage," the head of UNICEF said Tuesday in an exclusive interview with The Canadian Press by telephone from his New York City office. "Badly, in a word," is how Lake described the way things are currently going in Syria, according to The Chronicle Herald. That sense of outrage echoed on Parliament Hill on Tuesday, when retired Canadian general and former senator Romeo Dallaire said the Rwandan genocide is being repeated right now in Syria and the world isn't doing enough to stop it. Lake, the executive director of the United Nations Children Fund, watched the doctors pluck pieces of the patient jawbone out of his shattered face using what he called "old instruments" in a setting he described as "sort of an operating room." Lake was shown the anaesthetic that was being used. Dallaire was part of a delegation that displayed some of the 55,000 forensic photos that depict atrocities committed against civilians in Syrian prisons by the regime of President Bashar Assad. Lake, meanwhile, painted a vivid portrait of what he saw first-hand in Syria on his most recent trip there. The photos were smuggled out of Syria and depict torture on men, women and children. "Through pictures, through scenes, we hope to bring to the attention of parliamentarians and Canadians the true suffering of human beings that are caught in the middle of this maelstrom that we are fiddling with, instead of trying to reconcile," Dallaire said Tuesday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.