Hisham Marwa, a member of the Legal Committee of the Syrian Coalition, during this year’s Universal Children’s Day criticized “the Assad regime’s use of Syrian children as a means of manipulating public opinion towards Syrians who demand the fall of the regime.” Marwa added that “the regime is trying to build its political glory on the deaths of Syrian children, especially because their little hands that scrawled anti-regime graffiti on the walls were the spark that lit the Syrian Revolution.” Furthermore, Marwa said that the Convention on Children’s Rights called for special treatment for children. Ironically, this is what Assad did, instead of treating them with kindness, Assad, as the sole ruler, made graves the bed of children and chemical weapons to silence a child to death in his father’s lap.” Marwa also said that “on this day all human rights advocates are ashamed because they could not achieve even basic things for the children of Syria.” Marwa expressed surprise that the “international community ignored the appeals of human rights organizations who demanded that children of Syria be spared from the killing machine being used against them and condemned those who put political interests above human values.” It is worth mentioning that over 10,000 Syrian children have been killed after systematic attacks were waged against unarmed Syrians by the regime since the beginning of the revolution, in addition to the thousands of cases of torture and disabilities resulting from the siege imposed upon rebellious Syrian cities. The member of the legal committee called on international organizations to accelerate the adoption of quick positions to address the phenomenon of polio caused by the siege imposed on the Syrian cities and the blocking of medical aid to them. The World Health Organization recorded many cases of polio in Deir Ezzor recently after an absence of nearly 14 years. The UN organization added that “Syria is currently at serious risk of polio and other vaccine-preventable diseases.” (Source: Syrian Coalition)
