Imtiaz Sooliman – Gift ot the Givers’ on Syria as death toll rises

Welcome back. Founder of humanitarian and disaster relief

organization. Gift of the givers. MTS, Suleiman speaks with us via

Skype. Mister Suleman, thank you very much for joining us now. You

have personnel on the ground in Syria. What's the reaction been to

the latest bombing?

Have been through the Good evening. Sorry. Kabila, good

evening. I thought, sir, have been through this kind of disaster

since march 2011

nothing in Syria shocks them anymore. What shocks them is the

world's lataji to try to save those people who have been

affected, innocent people who've been born countless times in the

last seven years. And this is just another escalation. My teams are

too far from the affected area. Our hospital is in a place called

darqush, which is 360 kilometers away from Eastern Ghouta, and the

terrain and the road and the blockages and the bombing from

there to darqush is virtually impossible to reach. All they say

is we pray for our people. But this is nothing new. It's been

happening over and over again for the last seven years

now. You date back to as far as 2011 how's your organization

received in that country so far? And how are your relations with

the different warring factions there?

Well, we keep a very neutral

situation. We keep that in neutral with all the warrior sections,

because, given the nature of the war itself, get politically

involved, not for this war anymore, for anything, for that

better. In that area like that, there's continuous flux. People

keep, keep changing in the area where we are. So we, all we do is

we save life. People come to the hospital. We don't have which

group you belong to, where you come from, where you were

fighting. You bring your child, your wife, yourself, you come, we

treat you, and we send you out. Our only focus is to save life.

And why I say things change when we open up the hospital. At that

time, the civilians, it was in 2013

the civilians had moved. It was the only people in the area. There

were no soldiers. It was the civilians that protested, their

resolved, and all other troops had moved out. There was no army.

There was the civilians. A few months later, the free civil army

came into the area. They were in charge. A year or two later, it

was ISIS in the area. Thereafter, it was Nusa, and it keeps

changing, and we keep our same focus serve the people without

favor and save lives in that way, the sixth security and the safety

of hospital has been guaranteed, and the safety and security of our

of our personnel are guaranteed to the point that we've grown so

much, we see 14 to 15,000 patients a month

now, speaking of saving lives, this week's attack was in the

rebel health Syrian club of Eastern ghata. Are your personnel

in danger? Well,

they're not in that area. They are from that area, but we are in 360

kilometers away from that area, we're not in danger at all. Of

course, no third place in Syria is safe in the area that we we

operate quite a few times a army planes that try to bomb our

hospitals. In fact, when the South African team went across in 2013

they tried, on numerous occasions to bomb us in the hospital. If,

you're three years ago, a car was placed about a kilometer outside

the hospital. So the personnel are never safe in in where we are, or

anywhere else inside we are, because one of the primary targets

for us are hospitals, clinics, schools, supermarket for market,

the marketplaces, places of worship. Those are all target

bosses. So no hospital doctor, no guarantee safe. What we are

worried about inside Guta is a professor of the head of the

hospital in Arkush. Our professor is the head of the Medical

Council. He's been there for several years, and he is at first,

as are all the other medical personnel working with him. Inside

Guta, like

you mentioned, this has been going on for many years now. Is there

political will to save the people of Syria? No, there is no

political will. There never was, and there never will be. If there

was, well, then you could have for seven years. It can't take people

seven years to realize there's something crazy going on inside

the country where more than 15 million people have been

displaced, where people are massacred in every part of the

country, where people take ships and boats to go across to Europe,

and many of them drown on the way, and more than a million people

have lost their lives. So many have been tortured, so many have

been imprisoned. It can't take the world seven years to realize that

something is seriously wrong if you take the situation and

cooperate, it to Bosnia. What in months, the international

community interacted and intervened. There was a no flying

zone, there was an arms embargo, there were safe havens. There were

eight agencies from everywhere in the world. Inside those, world

media was inside Bosnia, and it was stopped within three years, if

you go inside.

Syria, you don't see anything of the sort compared to what happened

in Bosnia. So the conclusion is, let's look the other way and let

the people of Syria be destroyed. We'll have to leave it there.

Mister Suleman, thank you very much for joining us on ACBC news.

That was a gift of the givers. Founder MTS. Suleiman, joining us

for the latest in Syria, we'll have more.