Romeo Dallaire says Syria reminds him of Rwanda — Transcript

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1. 0:01what I want to bring to your attention
2. 0:04is the fact that we are not shining a
3. 0:07light strong enough on the fact that
4. 0:11there is a solution possible and that
5. 0:14there is negotiations that have got to
6. 0:16be accelerated and reinforced and that
7. 0:20those who are being held against their
8. 0:24will those under duress those being
9. 0:27tortured those being displaced refugees
10. 0:30bring back to me so many memories of
11. 0:33what I saw for millions in Rwanda up to
12. 0:374 million in Iran de and the scale that
13. 0:42is being repeated in Syria and yet we
14. 0:46still haven't built this sense of
15. 0:48urgency of truly wanting to bring
16. 0:50solutions and conclusions to it and so
17. 0:54today through pictures through scenes we
18. 0:59hope to bring to the attention of
19. 1:01parliamentarians and Canadians the true
20. 1:04suffering of human beings that are
21. 1:08caught in the middle of this Maelstrom
22. 1:10that we are fiddling with instead of
23. 1:13trying to resolve and I would argue that
24. 1:16it is significant that we use as a
25. 1:19premise that we've learned since Rwanda
26. 1:21that all humans are human every one of
27. 1:26them over there counts as much as here
28. 1:29and when I was in Jordan last summer in
29. 1:32a Syrian refugee camp and arguing with
30. 1:36young 13 year old Syrians were being
31. 1:38recruited to go fight in a Free Syrian
32. 1:40Army and proving that they were nothing
33. 1:43more than cannon fodder when a society
34. 1:45uses children as cannon fodder for a
35. 1:48desperate cause like that it is a
36. 1:50disgrace to humanity and we are part of
37. 1:54letting that disgrace perpetuate itself