SEPTEMBER 21- 2015
Romeo Dallaire says that Canada has the capacity to take as many as 90,000 Syrian refugees. (CP File)
Dallaire: Canada must do more to help Syrian children
Sunday, September 20, 2015 - 6:29pm | CLARE MELLOR STAFF REPORTER
Romeo Dallaire has seen first-hand the desperation of Syrian children living in refugee camps. “They can’t get to school. They are sitting around in the middle of a hot desert with (nothing) whatsoever, ” said the retired lieutenant-general and...
Romeo Dallaire says that Canada has the capacity to take as many as 90,000 Syrian refugees. (CP File)
Romeo Dallaire has seen first-hand the desperation of Syrian children living in refugee camps.
“They can’t get to school. They are sitting around in the middle of a hot desert with (nothing) whatsoever, ” said the retired lieutenant-general and former senator, who was in Jordan in July and visited refugee camps along the Syria border.
“The young people are totally disenfranchised. … It is not surprising that they are being easily recruited by the Free Syrian Army to go and fight.”
Dallaire, who will be in Halifax this week, has recently said that Canada has the capacity to take as many as 90,000 Syrian refugees. He reiterated those numbers in an interview with The Chronicle Herald on Friday.
“We ought to be talking in the numbers of 80,000 to 90,000, ” he said in a phone interview from Ottawa.
Dallaire, who was the commander of the United Nations peacekeeping force during the Rwandan genocide, said the Syrian conflict reminds him of Rwanda, with millions of people being displaced and children being exposed to horrors of war.
“I’m brought back to Rwanda,” he said. “I see an abandonment of those people, particularly the abandonment of the children.
“It has been quite difficult to watch because when we’ve experienced things like that, we feel it. It is not just watching it.”
Dallaire, founder of the Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative based at Dalhousie University, and Stephen Lewis, co-director of AIDS Free World, will be speaking about child soldiers and sexual violence as weapons of war at a sold-out event Thursday at Dal.
“Child soldiers, right now, are the primary weapon system used by all sides in Syria, as they are being used in Iraq the same,” Dallaire said.
“What is getting worse is that they are recruiting them younger and younger.”
Syria was a well-educated, middle-class society, and its citizens have many skills to offer, however, a whole generation will soon be lost, Dallaire said.
He has spoken with young Syrians, some of whom have now spent three years in camps with precarious living conditions.
“Young people are seeing their their lives go by,” he said. “They are not getting the skills they need.
“We seem to be quite prepared to let people rot away in camps or, if they are able to get through, give them such a horrible, hard time in trying to find safety and a place to live.
Dallaire said Canada has an important history of helping refugees and the government should not be using security concerns as an excuse not to act.
Canada needs to act immediately and could utilize military bases to temporarily house arriving refugees, he said.
“We’ve got enough strategic lift to move thousands and thousands of people,” he said. “We’ve got a great capability in moving populations, so we can get them out (of camps) soon. So I’m talking six months, seven months, at most,” he said.
Dallaire spoke about the recent outpouring of concern for refugees following the circulation of the image of Syrian toddler Alan Kurdi, who drowned and washed up on a Turkish beach after his family fled Syria.
“They were killing and slaughtering thousands and thousands of children in the fighting and in the mutilations and mass atrocities in Syria, well before that one child,” Dallaire said. “Where were we? Where was the media? Where was everybody. This has been going on for four years.”
What does Canadian Soldier Romeo Dallaire- our troops we trust.... the rest is bullshit and beans and useless as titties on a bull....... POLITICIANS sell us out on a whim..... and all our troops victories are sold for less than a postage stamp.... and humanity suffers on the streets of our homelands.... and it breaks our hearts.... and small victories make us soar.... it is a good world.... we just need better human goals.... and decency... don't cha think.... more Pope Francis and less political clap trap in their fancy clothes in their fancy lifestyles ... while humanity dwindles in hunger and despair... way to much...imho
And here we go... God calls... we answer.... everyday people fixing politicians and UN messes... LIKE RWANDA... again.... Jesus Weeps.... and so do we.... BUT WE REFUSE 2 LET OUR PEOPLE SUFFER THIS TIME... and everybody needs to pitch in... not for the 3 'month buzz' but for 3-5 years.... and the refugees must be gracious and integrate among the communities... in Canada we women equal men (so save your 3 wives bit) and our gays, unions and freedoms... u must do your part 2... Oh Pope Francis we love u so much... what are we going to do with u heart emoticon like emoticon angel emoticon u tame the wildest of our Catholic hearts... even us old Paedophile hunters... because ur the best hunter of them all.... and u believe in us poor, broken, disabled and disadvantaged... and u love us deeply... and we know it... imho.. QUOTE: There are more than four million Syrian refugees. Another seven million or more have been internally displaced.
Lebanon's population has increased by at least a quarter. In British terms that's the equivalent of 15 million new immigrants over four years. Jordan's population has shot up by a sixth. Turkey is housing 1.9 million Syrians and even Iraq, at war itself, has absorbed 250,000.
Of those who are travelling across the Mediterranean sea, 51% are Syrian, 14% are Afghan, 3% are Iraqi, 2% are Somali and another 2% are Sudanese. That means that 72% are feeling countries at war.
Vatican2shelterfamilies fleeing war,hunger; pope wants Europe churches2same - Yahoo News Canada
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Romeo Dallaire's - Canada's troops matters- RWANDA - and the utter betrayal by United Nations, US and World Leaders
John
15:17-27New International Version (NIV)
17 This is my command: Love each other.
The World Hates the Disciples
18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated
me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as
its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of
the world. That is why the world hates you. 20 Remember what I
told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’[a] If they persecuted me, they will persecute
you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 21 They
will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who
sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would
not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 Whoever
hates me hates my Father as well. 24 If I had not done among
them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they
have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. 25 But
this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without
reason.’[b]
The Work of the Holy Spirit
26 “When the
Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who
goes out from the Father—he will testify about me. 27 And you
also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.
This is who we are as Canadians..... BUT WE WANT REFUGEES
FROM THE CAMPS ON SYRIAN BOARDERS..... NOT THE RICH CROWDS RACING 2 EUROPE....
Sydney
River man's memories spur action to help Syrian refugees
ANDREW
RANKIN Cape Breton Bureau
Published September 7, 2015 - 8:32pm
Last Updated September 8, 2015 - 6:31am
Terry Smith was just a boy when Lady of Fatima Parish decided to act in
response to Vietnam’s refugee crisis in 1979.Published September 7, 2015 - 8:32pm
Last Updated September 8, 2015 - 6:31am
He was part of the Sydney River congregation that sponsored a handful of Vietnamese families, and the event made a lasting impression.
“As a young boy it really made an impact on me that the community rallied to support these people, to give them a better life in Cape Breton,” Smith said.
“I remembered seeing some of the children in school. That made me proud. But everybody was shook by it at our church, and we wanted to be involved in helping them.”
Some 36 years later, Smith and the rest of Canada face the monumental humanitarian tragedy of the Syrian refugee crisis.
Smith and about 80 others want to bring Syrian refugees to Cape Breton through community sponsorship. An open meeting at Sydney’s Cedars Club is scheduled for Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. to establish an official group that will lead the charge.
“We have to mobilize some sort of co-ordinated response. How can Cape Bretoners and local organizations respond and get involved, but at the same time hopefully advocate to have some sort of co-ordinated response from the federal government as well?”
Smith has already garnered support from Lifeline Syria in Toronto. The group is working toward resettling 1,000 Syrian refugees in the Greater Toronto Area over the next two years through recruiting, training and offering support to sponsor groups.
Smith said a chapter could be established in Cape Breton, “or maybe we could work through an existing organization in Cape Breton.”
The Conservative government promised in January to accept 10,000 refugees from Syria over the next three years. But as of late July, only 1,002 people had resettled in Canada.
The federal government currently relies heavily on sponsored immigration, under which refugees are sponsored by a community group or relatives living in Canada.
The proposed Cape Breton group could sponsor refugees through Immigration Services Association of Nova Scotia, which is assisting 44 Syrian refugees to come to this province under the sponsorship program. But many of those files could take years to process.
“Right now what we’re hearing is private sponsorship can take a fair bit of time,” said Smith. “We have to push the government to do more.”
As of Friday afternoon, the United Nations Refugee Agency had registered 4,088,078 refugees from the civil war in Syria. Many of those, along with hundreds of thousands more from the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia, are desperately attempting to reach Europe.
David Wheeler, president of Cape Breton University, intends to attend Tuesday’s meeting. He’ll be there as a concerned citizen but also representing the university, which is in the midst of a multi-year project aimed at increasing immigration to the island.
The country faces a crossroads, Wheeler said.
“It’s a defining moment for our country. How will Canada play its role within the international community and what’s really important to Canadian citizens and our government?”
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Wish we could have sponsored Anne Frank...as WWII children she was our hero... so brave...so good...so decent
CANADA WE MUST FOCUS ON REFUGEE CAMPS.... IN SURROUNDING
SYRIAN NATIONS- children under 6 are
working for scraps.....
PLEASE NOTE:
POINTS OF ORDER- Sponsoring
refugees is a huge amount of work...and care and compassion and a lot of time
and faith and being there embracing them for at least 3-5 years in our
communities...WE DID THIS MANY TIMES. ALSO: ensuring that if u sponsor
them... they promise:
1) to stay in Canada
2) keep their money in Canada
3) not turn around and move to the big cities as soon as they are landed and fill their temporary refugee promise with the church groups or which ever 'recognized' group sponsors them in communities across Canada
4) When they get their Canada Citizenship, they stay in Canada not hide their tax money back in the country they refugeed from.....
5) STAY IN CANADA AND ACCEPT CANADA'S INCLUSIVENESS- we love our gays and women equal men by law in Canada... and be part of Canada and mean it... imho
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1) to stay in Canada
2) keep their money in Canada
3) not turn around and move to the big cities as soon as they are landed and fill their temporary refugee promise with the church groups or which ever 'recognized' group sponsors them in communities across Canada
4) When they get their Canada Citizenship, they stay in Canada not hide their tax money back in the country they refugeed from.....
5) STAY IN CANADA AND ACCEPT CANADA'S INCLUSIVENESS- we love our gays and women equal men by law in Canada... and be part of Canada and mean it... imho
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QUOTE: The Syrian
conflict has displaced 7.6 million people internally, and around 3
million refugees have fled across borders. Ninety-five percent of those
refugees are housed in only five countries: Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and
Iraq.
United
Nations Launches $7 Billion Appeal for Syrian Refugee Crisis
By
Lucy Westcott 12/18/14
at 9:51 AM
heads up Canada- no excuse for not voting- if Afghan women
had the determination and the guts.... so should u- NO EXCUSES CANADA
April 5 2014 (the same day that Afghan women rose up in the
millions with their mommas, grannies and youngbloods and voted in Islamic
Republic of Afghanistan for freedom.... marching over the evil Taliban baby
killing machine and freezing sleeting rain walking and walking for miles.....
and 2DA IN CANADA.... if Afghan women have the courage and determination to
register in Afghanistan.... First Nations, Students and all of u... get off
your lazy asses.... cause we’re watching.... and if Afghan women show this kind
of courage.... so can u..... THEY WANTED TO PROVE... FOREIGN TROOPS AND
THEIRS... DID...NOT... DIE...IN VAIN..
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Then.... RWANDA
BLOGSPOT:
CANADA MILITARY NEWS-
RWANDA-Canadians Remember Rwanda- April 7, 2014/So few...NO heroes among Global
politicans r Global $$$ Media- so many deaths... not a white mans war-UN
ignored- as did Africas- RWANDA SCREAMS THAT SYRIA IS 2014's RWANDA- shame
United Nations- Shame!
AND...
TODAY- RWANDA
God's true miracle..... OUR
GLORIOUS RWANDA- gorillas are back and beautiful and thousands of tourist race
2 visit....
As Mountain Gorillas Bounce Back, Rwanda Names Gorilla Newborns- Rwanda holds naming ceremony for baby gorillas born over the past year.
As Mountain Gorillas Bounce Back, Rwanda Names Gorilla Newborns- Rwanda holds naming ceremony for baby gorillas born over the past year.
As Mountain Gorillas Bounce Back, Rwanda Names Gorilla
Newborns
QUOTE: “If they can’t work together to save these children,” Adnan Hadad, an activist from the Syrian city of Aleppo, wrote on Twitter as the image of the boy went viral, “the world leaders better find another planet to rule.”
Exodus of Syrians Highlights Political Failure of the West
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/05/world/middleeast/exodus-of-syrians-highlights-political-failure-of-the-west.html?smid=fb-share
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BLOGSPOT:
CANADA MILITARY NEWS-Refugees 45.2
Million a year 2014/Vietnamese Boatpeople-Canada love/ BC Civil Liberties suits
cost Canadians $$$$Millions- Canadian troops torturing Afghan Taliban /Gov.
Assisted Refugee Resettlement/some Canada military news posts on other bds
2005-2012/old Saddam Hussein trick- purpose of middle east war 2 create war and
dump refugees on other nations VS thousands of churches and communities
sponsored Vietnamese Boatpeople if they wld stay in our communities /EDUCATION
is needed -people on boats 2 Italy spend $$$$thousands 2 illegally cross-/
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Canada's MAINSTREAM MEDIA...LIED ABOUT A LITTLE BOY... AND SPEWED DISGRACE AND SHAME ON CANADIANS WHO GIVE SO MUCH- SO OFTEN...SO REGULARLY 2 SO MANY NATIONS... AND CAUSES... only Global Canada News abstained.... shame....shame... shame... they became the CNN and Fox news of the world... ewww.
BLOGSPOT;
CANADA MILITARY NEWS- God's Watching- Remembering Katrina...post to troops and personal observations 2009/Waylon Jennings -House of the Rising Sun for Katrina/ Why is the kindness and goodness of our Christian nations so horrifically abused with $$$$trillions of 50 years fed in2 waste and despots and thieves pockets? why?-The Foreign Aid Debate/why we still believe in decency and good of each other 2 still give as Canadians in a jaded-faded world -and will because it's just right-God's watching
Syria
the graveyard of US /UNITED NATIONS credibility
QUOTE:In the process, Syria has become the graveyard of U.S. credibility.
This was not some humanitarian problem distant from the center of U.S. interests. It was a crisis at the heart of the Middle East that produced a vacuum of sovereignty that has attracted and empowered some of the worst people in the world. Inaction was a conscious, determined choice on the part of the Obama White House. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and CIA Director David Petraeus advocated arming favorable proxies. Sunni friends and allies in the region asked, then begged, for U.S. leadership. All were overruled or ignored.
In the process, Syria has become the graveyard of U.S. credibility. The chemical weapons “red line.” “The tide of war is receding.” “Don’t do stupid [stuff].” These are global punch lines. “The analogy we use around here sometimes,” said Obama of the Islamic State, “and I think is accurate, is if a JV team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant.” Now the goal to “degrade and destroy” the Islamic State looks unachievable with the current strategy and resources. “The time has come for President Assad to step aside,” said Obama in 2011. Yet Assad will likely outlast Obama in power.
What explains Obama’s high tolerance for humiliation and mass atrocities in Syria? The Syrian regime is Iran’s proxy, propped up by billions of dollars each year. And Obama wanted nothing to interfere with the prospects for a nuclear deal with Iran. He was, as Hof has said, “reluctant to offend the Iranians at this critical juncture.” So the effective concession of Syria as an Iranian zone of influence is just one more cost of the president’s legacy nuclear agreement.
Never mind that Iran will now have tens of billions of unfrozen assets to strengthen Assad’s struggling military. And never mind that Assad’s atrocities are one of the main recruiting tools for the Islamic State and other Sunni radicals. All of which is likely to extend a war that no one can win, which has incubated regional and global threats — and thrown a small body in a red T-shirt against a distant shore.
At many points during the past four years, even relatively small actions might have reduced the pace of civilian casualties in Syria. How hard would it have been to destroy the helicopters dropping barrel bombs on neighborhoods? A number of options well short of major intervention might have reduced the regime’s destructive power and/or strengthened the capabilities of more responsible forces. All were untaken.
The horrific results of Obama’s failure in Syria
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-horrific-results-of-obamas-strategy-in-syria/2015/09/03/c16c117a-526c-11e5-933e-7d06c647a395_story.html
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One Billion Rising- No More Excuses-No More Abuses
U
are a child of the universe- no less than the trees and the stars- u have a
right 2 be here....
CHILD
OF THE UNIVERSE (Lyrics) Desiderata by Max Ehrmann
Desiderata
Go
placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in
silence.
As
far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
Speak
your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and
ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid
loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
If
you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter;
for
always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy
your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep
interested in your career, however humble; it is a real possession in the
changing fortunes of time.
Exercise
caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery.
But
let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high
ideals;
and
everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be
yourself.
Especially,
do not feign affection.
Neither
be critical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is
as perennial as the grass.
Take
kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture
strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress
yourself with imaginings.
Many
fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be
gentle with yourself.
You
are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars;
you
have a right to be here.
And
whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it
should.
Therefore
be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be,
and
whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace
with your soul.
With
all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be
careful. Strive to be happy.
Max
Ehrmann 1927
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and one of the world's most beautiful and loved women.... AUDREY HEPBURN
AUDREY HEPBURN – WHEN ASKED 2 SHARE HER BEAUTY TIPS…
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers throuh it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
People even more than things need to be restored, renewed, revivied, reclaimed and redeemed.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find on at the end of each of your arms.
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself, and the other for helping others.”
for complainers.... this is my blog.... and imho..... it is not a mandatory read in any way... it is simply ...a blog... oh and Google... love u.... God bless the child always...
... our families have always served our nation's 4 freedom- I'll die standing thank u-rather than bow down on my knees just 2 have peace- and every little girl equals boys in our world of Canada- UNITED NATIONS MAY NOT SIGN EQUALITY 4 WOMEN ON THIS PLANET... nor USA- but Canada does by God. That's why millions of the silent majority 4 still here all over quietly supporting our men and women wearing r flags.... cause they matter- they matter....
Am an old momma- have been watching the backs of our Nato kids since 2001- Our Canada...
how many tears and prayers
how many cheers
how glowing our pride
how reflecting inside
we wear Red on Fridays
we support troops always
in the streets on the roads
on the net by the droves
we weep, we scream, we pray
and we start again every day
we r the surviors of WWII
found the hard way what freedom can do
we can have peace on our knees
or blood and scars of freedom's breeze
that so many try to steal from the poor
in places that UN pretends don't count anymore
NATO stands up true and brave
cause each person's life is worth a save
and if u can march against war in ur safe world
how can u actually say freedom 4 each boy and girl
our children wearing our flags fight and die 4 u
and supporting ur troops is the very least u can do
get up, and work hard to prove
that Canada's children of flags deserve honour from u
Written May 26, 2013
old tired momma Nova- still here 4 our Nato children wearing our flags- the millions of silent majority around the world...
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