In northern Syria snipers are
targeting pregnant women, unborn babies and young children. In one instance a
pregnant mother was shot in the stomach and the bullet went through and pierced
through the baby’s head. The mother survived but the baby didn’t. David Nott, a British volunteer surgeon says
the snipers are playing a “targeting game” when it comes to the victims and
heavily pregnant women are on the hit list. When saying heavily pregnant women
it would be women who were seven, eight, nine month’s gestation so you anyone
could tell that they were pregnant. In pictures provided by Syria Relief there
are young kids with head wounds from the snipers looking no older than five.
Nott, states that while working in the hospital 90 percent of the surgeries would
be sniper shots and some days out of 10 or 15 gunshots wounds eight or nine of
them would be targeted in one spot. One day it would be in the left groin only
and the following day it would be in the right, almost as if it was a game
between the snipers. In a video obtained by CNN from Aleppo, women, men and
children are seen tying to outrun the snipers bullets. Many would try to outrun
because of the food sources would be in the rebel-held areas while they stayed
in the regime-controlled side. Not everyone made it through.
This is a serious issue but the
crime rate there is insane and the fact the people can’t walk around freely
without worrying about getting shot is ridiculous. Pregnant women and young children
shouldn’t have to deal with this. Being a woman now and planning on becoming
pregnant in the future this is a scary thing to think about. Innocent people
being killed in never a good deal and these snipers need to be brought to
justice.
Natalia Alexander
10/25/2013
Atika Shubert , Bharati Naik, ed. N.p.. Web. 25 Oct 2013.
<http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/22/world/meast/syria-snipers-pregnant-women/index.html?iid=article_sidebar>.
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