Government bombers aimed at hospitals … 590,000 people fell in the 10 years of the Syrian Civil War

The civil war in Syria called’the humanitarian disaster of the 21st century’ began with the violence of power. On March 15, 2011, in a small city called Dara in southern Syria, 15 teenagers wrote a graffiti on the wall saying’The people want the regime to retire’. They were arrested and tortured by the police. In 2011, the’Arab Spring’ was in full swing in most of the Arab world. People’s protests for freedom, democracy and human rights erupted. Young people’s graffiti was a popular slogan not only in Syria at the time, but also throughout the Arab world.

Power responded by torture to children’s graffiti, and by firing fire to protests by family members, relatives, and citizens who protested. Steel gave birth to another steel, gunpowder called another gunpowder, and blood brought another blood. The firing spread nationwide and citizens were forced to hold guns. The civil war began like this.
And ten years have passed. Considering that the Korean War lasted for 3 years and 1 month, the Imjin War lasted for 6 years and 7 months, the First World War lasted 4 years and 3 months, and the Second World War lasted 6 years, the civil war in Syria was long and difficult. It is a tragic conflict.

The civil war in Syria turned an entire country into a sea of ​​blood and ruins. Directed the humanitarian disaster in the 21st century. Thousands of people have been killed or injured, but even those who survived have unusual mental health. The tragic memories of war in adolescence have led to collective trauma for a generation, and many are suffering from mental panic. Mental health is also threatened while education and economic activities are paralyzed. This situation is evident in the results of an investigation by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on young people from Syria.

The ICRC recently conducted a meaningful survey of Syrian young people living in and out of Syria, and announced the results on the 10th anniversary of the outbreak of the civil war. The ICRC is an international humanitarian organization founded in 1863 by philanthropist Henri Dunant, a private non-profit organization that sparked the Red Cross movement around the world. In more than 100 countries, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1917, 1944, and 1963 by supporting victims of conflict and conducting humanitarian activities.

The ICRC recently surveyed 1,400 young people aged 19 to 25 residing in Syria, neighboring Lebanon, and Germany who received them as refugees.
They were found to suffer mental and psychological distress following the civil war that lasted for 10 years. The survey found that they had a high percentage of anxiety (73%), depression (58%), and sleep disturbances (54%) amongst feelings of frustration (62%), loneliness (46%), and other mental distress (69%). Was suffering as. As a result of ICRC analysis, two-thirds of them indicated that psychological treatment was necessary. Civil war caused not only the visible physical part but also the invisible heart disease.

The cause is, of course, a civil war. The grief and fear of death and injury caused heart disease. As a result of the civil war, 47% of them suffered the deaths of relatives and friends, and 1 in 6 died or severely injured one or more of their parents. Injuries also reached 12%.
Their economic situation is also terrible. Half of them had no income at all, and 77% were unable to afford enough food and daily necessities. This rate reached 85% among respondents living in Syria. 57% were no longer educated after the civil war.
The economic situation is particularly serious in Syria. Only 13.4, two-thirds of Syria’s population of about 17.5 million, need humanitarian aid, the ICRC diagnosed. In Syria, a large number of economic activities are paralyzed by the civil war, and residents are unable to obtain opportunities and jobs for economic activities. Thirty percent of the Syrian population appears to have no income to support their families.
The social situation of Syrian youth is also serious. 62% are homeless, and 54% have lost contact with relatives. Among respondents living in Lebanon, 70% of respondents lost contact with their relatives. One in five respondents postponed their marriage plans due to the ongoing civil war.

The UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) report on children in Syria also resonates. UNICEF was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 as a UN agency that works for the health care, nutrition, hygiene, education and protection of children and mothers in 192 countries around the world.
The report released by UNICEF on the 10th anniversary of the Syrian Civil War is disastrous. According to UNICEF estimates, nearly 12,000 children have died or injured in Syria in the last decade of civil war. 5,700 children were mobilized in the battle, including a child who was only 7 years old. It is a’Syrian child soldier’.

500,000 people suffer from chronic malnutrition. In Syria, the price of food for a single life has jumped to 230% in the past year.
2.45 million people in Syria and 750,000 children in neighboring countries have left school, of which 40% are girls. It turns out that 90% of children need humanitarian aid. This is a 20% increase from last year. More than 1,300 workers in medical and educational facilities were attacked.

The documentary’To Sama’ is the vivid accusation of this tragedy with a video filmed on site. He was nominated for the documentary category at the 92nd Academy Awards in 2020. On February 9 of that year, when director Bong Joon-ho’s’Parasite’ won the Best Film, Director, Screenplay, and Foreign Language Film Awards, this documentary remained a nomination.

The background of the feature documentary film’To Sama’ is Aleppo (Halab in Arabic), a metropolitan city in northwestern Syria called’Stalingrad of Syria’ because of the harsh battles and inhumane containment of civilians. It was filmed for four and a half years from 2012 to 2016, when’Dongaleppo Siege’ was in progress. At that time, director Ward Alcathep (alkathep is a pseudonym for family protection), who stayed in the city at that time, translated what he recorded with a camera in a scene documentary with British Edward Watts in England.

The surprising fact is that the film recorder, the director, was a mother who loved and gave birth to raise a daughter at the site of the siege of Aleppo. The scene of the bloody civil war was faithfully dealt with family and human issues from a woman’s perspective. The main characters of the documentary are director Ward Alcathep, daughter Sama (meaning heaven), and her husband, doctor Hamza. Wards testify of every situation in their own voice. The testimony was filled with bitter recollections so that even the child could not even cry with ease. The tragedy of the civil war was very painful, but I did not miss it and captured it on the camera.

At the time of the siege of Dong-Aleppo, concentricity becomes devastated as it becomes desolate, and tragedies beyond imagination occur every day in a simple hospital. The young brothers who brought their younger brother who had lost consciousness to the hospital immediately after the bombing dried up even tears. Their parents have already been victimized by the bombing. A mother who has lost her child cries endlessly in a state of half-disappearance. Doctors and hospital staff who see this are confused by the idea that they do not know when they will be victims of the bombing. In fact, the Syrian government forces and Russian bombers focused on hospitals. Children are key victims of conflict.

This documentary thoroughly shows the shadow of the weapon. This is a scene in which brutal weapons made by mankind appear one after another and perform terrible killings. The scene of the Russian Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft dropping spreading bombs on Aleppo and destroying one street in a row is thrilling. Proliferation bombs, also referred to as cluster bombs and cluster bombs, are weapons for destruction and destruction that are divided into hundreds of small bombs and scattered like’steel rain’ before a single bomb reaches the ground.

The helicopter silently drops the bomb. A barrel bomb is a homemade weapon in which bombs, inflammables, and nails are placed in a drum, and does not explode immediately after being dropped on the ground using a delayed fuse. Instead, it is an anti-human killing weapon that explodes when people want something to come, causing mass destruction. In that curious children and adolescents are the main victims, it is a weapon that represents the inhumanity and tragedy of the Syrian war. It became a weapon that was used primarily by government troops that had seized control of air superiority, symbolizing the cruelty of the Syrian civil war. Through news and documentaries, the tragedy of the Syrian Civil War has already been fully known around the world. However, the problem is that no one is trying to solve this problem.

What’s even more heartbreaking is the fact that children living in this city hear what they hear from outside and notice what kind of weapon it is. The scene that distinguishes whether a girl who seems less than 10 years old is the sound of a normal bomb dropped from an aircraft, the sound of a spreading bomb breaking down a street in a city, or the sound of a shell fired from a tank destroying a building is war. It was a comedy tragedy. It is a tragedy in itself to put the name diffusion bomb in that child’s mouth. Children are actually born and have seen nothing but war. When children hear the sound of a bomb dropped from a bomber exploding from the ground and distinguish between cluster bombs or not, the hearts of the audience resonate. Conflict destroys concentricity.

Syria was in ruins as it faced a conflict filled with the smell of gunpowder and blood in the shadow of weapons. The economy was paralyzed and infrastructure was destroyed. According to statistics from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Syria’s gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in 2010 was $1700 in 2010, estimated at $829 in 2019, which is the level of the world’s poorest countries. At present, the image of Syria has collapsed, and a terrible city area that has turned into ruins comes to mind.
Even more, the problem is people. There are too many people who have died, injured, and left. According to the Syrian Human Rights Observatory (SOHR), a non-governmental organization based in Coventry, England, the 10-year civil war killed 380,000 to 590,000 people, including 11,6900 civilians. According to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCRT), 5.11 million refugees and 7.6 million internally displaced people came from Syria. As a result, the Syrian population was estimated to be 21 million in 2010, just before the civil war, and 17.5 million last year. The CIA factbook published by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) estimated the population of Syria at 20.38 million as of July 2021.

Military operations also suffered a great deal of confusion and resulted in enormous loss of life. There were basically four subjects of the civil war. In addition to the government and rebels of Bashar Al-Sad, the Kurds in the northeast pursuing independence or autonomy, and the extremist armed group Islamic State (IS), which attempted to secure bases and expand their power in the midst of chaos. The rebels have been divided into dozens of factions according to political interests or purposes, and have been unable to engage in unified operations. IS was destroyed and left behind by multinational forces, including Kurds, rebels, and U.S. and Iraqi forces across the border.
In addition, Turkey and Russia, which set up military bases in Syria during the civil war, are intervening along the northern border of Syria. According to the German international broadcaster DW, Russia operates an air base in the state of Latakia in western Syria and a naval base in Tartus on the Mediterranean coast. In such a complex civil war between the four axes, even foreign troops have intervened, causing great chaos.

Military deaths are also significant. According to SOHR’s ​​statistics, in the case of Syrian government troops, there were 129700 to 170,700 people in the government army alone, Hezbollah, a Shiite armed faction in Lebanon that supports the government forces of Alassade, 1700 to 2000, and Russia helping the Alassad regime 133. ~156 people, the Wagner Group, a Russian private military enterprise, killed 183-283 people, and 8100 others. The rebels totaled 85,000 to 141,000 members of all factions, 13,700 troops from the Kurdish Autonomous Region, and PKK militants, a Kurdish group from Turkey.
It is counted as 230 to 285 in Turkey out of 3,200. Turkey selectively supports Syrian rebels, but Kurds are wary of ties with their own Kurds and regard PKK as a terrorist group.

The IS, which had been expanding its base amid the civil wars in Syria and Iraq, became a merit of the international community through cruelty and terror, and was attacked by almost all parties in the Syrian civil war. As a result, 4,100 people died and reached the stage of extinction.
However, the civil war doesn’t end just because the IS, which was a concern of the United States, was driven away. The Al-Sad regime, which caused the humanitarian catastrophe, is still alive. The dictator, who was rushing to ruin due to national resistance, has recovered much of the land lost due to the support of Russia and is in the process of slaughter. The civil war in Syria is still ongoing. In the indifference of the international community, life is dying and the tragedy does not end.
In-Taek Chae International Reporter [email protected]