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Assyrian Chaldean Syriac Students Raising funds for Mesopotamian Refugees

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York students raising funds and awareness for refugees in Iraq and Syria
Rahman Mohamed
Published on Excalibur, 24 November 2014

A movement across Ontario, Life of a Mesopotamian Refugee, built a campaign to raise awareness and funds for refugees in Syria and Iraq, former Mesopotamia, to display the conditions refugees face to local students last week.. This movement was led by the Assyrian Chaldean Syriac Student Union (ACSSU). ACSSU has branches at McMaster University in Hamilton, and York, Brock and Ryerson Universities in Toronto. All three played a role in Life of a Mesopotamian Refugee.

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The POW (Prisoner of War)

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Rahman Mohamed

After the combat of war, there are the victors and the vanquished.  In the hands of the victors, from the vanquished, are the Prisoners of War.  According to International Humanitarian Law prisoners of war also have rights.

Before they can be given rights, prisoners of war must first be defined.

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Syria and Security in the “Legal” Strike of 2013

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What the big 5 in the Council say about the conflict
Rahman Mohamed

After the demand of the release of political prisoners in Damascus and Derra, leading to the shootings that killed protesters, a nationwide uprising slowly began  in 2011.  Today Syria has grown to an all out civil war to which around nations around the world are debating whether or not to react, including the UN Security Council – the USA, the UK, France, Russia, and China.

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