More than 100 Canadian Druze communities gathered on Friday afternoon on the hill of Parliament and asked the government to intervene in a humanitarian crisis in Syria, where hundreds have already been killed.
Druze is a religious sect that started on the site of the 10th century Ismailism, the Shia-Islam branch. They make up about three percent of the Syrian population, and more than half of about one million Druze worldwide live in Syria.
Over the last week, the Syrian government took a battle between the local Bedouin fighters and the militia related to Druze in the southern part of the country.
Syrian intervention continued to cause bleeding, and on Wednesday’s fragile ceasefire has been reported again to break again Friday morning according to Al Jazeera.
“There is a clear intention to destroy the Druze group in Syria,” said Faht abou Zaine, Friday’s demonstration organizer on the hill of Parliament.
Some protesters liked signs that called losses as genocide.
“We want to call and ask the Canadian government and all democracies around the world to open a humanitarian corridor immediately to rescue the life of killed innocent children,” he said.
When Aseda is only about an hour from the Syrian border with Jordan, protesters believe that Canada can use her diplomatic pressure to put pressure on both governments to allow a safe passage to Druze and provide humanitarian help to the population.
Syria denies participation in massacre
The new Syrian government, which came to power after President Bashar Al-Assad’s administration had fallen last December, has denied that the killings of civilians are hands-on by saying that its armed forces were only missing from the collisions between the militia.
Syrian President Ahmed al-Shara said that protecting Druzen and their rights as his primary objective of his government and promised to consider those who committed violations of our “Druze people”.
Al-Shara also spoke of Israel’s participation in the battles. Israel has repeatedly completed the airfields in Syria this year, when some will hit the Syrian Ministry of Defense in the capital of Damaskos on Wednesday.
Israel has said that it protects Druze from all attacks without giving military troops descending to them. After taking over the new government in Syria, Israel has transferred troops to the country.
The video around social media has shown that government troops and allies humiliate Druze priests and residents, rob homes and kills civilians within their own homes.
In the UK, the Syrian Human Rights Observatory, the NGO, said it was reduced by 374 people who were killed after the outbreaks of collision.
It mentioned “Field surveys and violations conducted by the Ministry of Defense for troops and local Druze fighters”.
Yara Harb, a volunteer organizer of the Ottawa demonstration, said “there is dehumanization, humiliation has occurred, there have been aggression against dignity and Druzentity,” he said.
Harb said it is very difficult to connect with its loved one to close the Internet and power.
He said that their grandparents lived there to him that their house had been robbed by a group of 40 men, and the last update they heard from them was that they had left their home back to search for asylum elsewhere.
Harb said their neighbor’s son was shot.
“They couldn’t get him at all for safety. So he finally died after 24 hours, when the only intervention was the prayers of the 85-year-old grandmother,” he said.
Bassma Al Atrache came to the demonstration from Montreal. He said he could not contact his mother in Avesida, four days. “The last time I talked to him, he was very traumatically, he heard freelas everywhere,” Al Atrache said, adding that his mother was a Canadian citizen.
A preliminary new relationship to Canada
Global Affairs Canada has not yet answered questions about this story.
The Canadian government will initially renew the relationship with Syria, where it closed its embassy in 2012.
In mid -March, Canada appointed Lebanon Ambassador Stefanie McCollum to serve at the same time as a Syrian Ambassador.
Then, in February, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed former Cabin Minister Omar Alghabra from his special ambassador to Syria.
However, the Canadian government is still on the Al-Qaeda website, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, a terrorist organization.
