Plight of Syrian Children Embodied in a 450 sq Portrait

Hossam al-Saadi, a cartoonist and a member of the Syrian Coalition, has embodied the human tragedy caused by Assad’s ongoing barbaric campaign that claimed the lives of thousands of Syrian children in a way that differs from political meetings and official statements. He painted a picture of the face of a little girl with wings and holds a clock without arms in her hand. But this angelic face looks overwhelmed with sadness, because it is was painted with the names of 12,500 children killed the Assad regime. Although the idea was for him just a dream at first, he said, that dream materialized in a beautiful portrait with a size of 450 square meters, making it the largest in the world. Saadi said that “the idea was born out of the need to draw the attention of the world and the international community to the plight of Syrian children and their future which is being sabotaged by the ongoing war and which was met with uttermost silence. In addition to being an armed struggle, our revolution is also the portrait of a painter, the melody of a singer and an essay of a writer. Saadi hopes that portrait will be displayed on the Universal Children’s Day, which falls on November 20th, 2014 in front of the European Parliament building in Brussels, adding that the portrait will be displayed in other European and Arab capitals.” He added that art is one of the tools that we must utilize to convey the plight of Syrian children to the outside world. We left the lowermost quarter of the little girl’s face empty to send a message that if the international community did not intervene to stop the killing of children then we will continue to write new names to complete the face of the girl. (Syrian Coalition + Al Hayat)