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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on February 08, 2017, 08:29:40 am
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A day with Bana, the Syrian girl who gave a voice to Aleppo
By Jomana Karadsheh and Kareem Khadder, CNN
Updated 2:13 AM ET, Wed February 8, 2017
Ankara, Turkey (CNN)Walking through a quiet Ankara park on a cold February afternoon, it was hard to miss the giggles and playful screams of 7-year-old Bana al-Abed and her two brothers.
As they bounced on a trampoline, the bloody war in their Syrian homeland seemed like a very distant memory.
But Bana, along with her family, only fled the besieged eastern portion of Aleppo in December. Her story had begun to resonate globally when, with the help of her mother Fatemah, she started tweeting about the plight of people living in the war-torn city.
Under attack. Nowhere to go, every minute feels like death. Pray for us. Goodbye - Fatemah #Aleppo
— Bana Alabed (@AlabedBana) December 5, 2016
(http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170207171521-bana-al-abed-family-5-super-169.jpg)
Continued: http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/08/middleeast/bana-ankara-turkey/index.html
:shrug: Really not sure of what to make of this. More pictures at the link.