Weep for Syria, remember the Kenyan child too

“The people want the fall of the regime’. This was the graffiti written by a boy and his friends in Syria before they were arrested by the police in 2011. Immediately after their arrest demonstrations broke out in Syria in March 2011. Then known as “the Damascus Spring”, these Syrian protests marked the beginning of the end of ‘peaceful’ Syria.

Fifty-four months after the conflict in Syria broke out, the world was gripped by the hopelessness of the pictures of a three-year-old boy who, while attempting to leave Syria for more peaceful pastures with his family, drowned and his body washed up ashore.