United Nations Children Fund and Anthony Lake

Canadian Press: 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, according to Brandon Sun. 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. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian WyldOTTAWA - Anthony Lake was in a Syrian hospital a few months ago watching surgery being performed on a sniper victim, whose age he could not determine because of the severity of the injuries. 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. 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. 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. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.