THE WAR ON CHILDREN IN SYRIA
Statement attributable to Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa
Reports of mass casualties among children in Eastern Ghouta and Damascus
AMMAN, 20 February 2018- “No words will do justice to the children killed, their mothers, their fathers and their loved ones”[1].
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[1] UNICEF is issuing this blank statement. We no longer have the words to describe children’s suffering and our outrage.Do those inflicting the suffering still have words to justify their barbaric acts?
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