Syria's Child Heroes: An Irish Tribute

By Declan Hayes

Syria's Child Heroes salutes the gallant civilians of Syria, in particular Syria's women and children and their guardians, who have withstood one of the most barbaric and merciless onslaughts in recent times. This work is based on the author's recent travels to Syria, where he visited the Palestinian Yarmouk refugee camp, Hom, Ma'loula and Kasab as the Syrian Arab Army wrested them from the invaders.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Declan Hayes
• Release date: Jan 25, 2016
• ISBN: 9781310491184

Declan Hayes

I am an Irish-born professor of Finance, who has published widely in English and Japanese on matters of economics, finance and politics. I have been heavily involved in Syrian issues for the last few years and my focus is exclusively on that conflict for now.

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An Irish Tribute

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Table of Contents

Abstract, Introduction, Acknowledgments, Caveats

Author

Existence is Resistance

Children should be seen and not murdered

Ora pro nobis?

Palestinian Peace Warriors

The Pope’s Battered Battalions

Heroes of the North

Enter the Syriacs

Badge of Honor

The Young, the Old, the Brave and the Bold

Protect the Widows & Orphans?

Saints and Scholars

Faith of our Fathers

The Real Syrian Hero Boys

Braveheart

How Great We Aren’t

Endgame

Royalties, Donations and Other Financial Matters

How to Donate

Fr Dave Option

Marist Option

Abstract, Introduction, Acknowledgments, Caveats

This shorter second volume concentrates on how NATO’s sanctions and other stealth modes of attack on Syria have damaged Syria’s children, who are among the main victims of this war without mercy we are waging against the Arab peoples. It does this mostly by the use of pictures of the living, the partly living and the dead. It includes pictures of Syrian children who froze to death as a result of our sanctions against them, Syrian and Palestinian children watching their childhoods drain away in displacement camps, Syrian and Palestinian children trying to get a stray ray of sunshine out of life, and Australian, Pakistani and Iranian peace pilgrims bringing small specks of hope to them.

Although, at one level, it is written as a personal salute and tribute to the brave children of Syria and their gallant guardians rather than as a turgid treatise or stock reporting piece, it also pulls few punches in saying who primarily are to blame for this great atrocity. In so doing, it also acts as a prelude to volume three, which offers Syria solutions.

Though terms such as angels are widely used to describe Syria’s children, they can, of course, be little imps as well. To understand why terms such as angels are very appropriate, please watch and listen to Finian Cunningham’s song here and please realize we have to make amends for the unspeakable crimes those we funded and armed committed against the innocent child heroes of Syria, angels and imps alike, this volume salutes.

Author

Dr Declan Hayes is an Irish-born professor of finance, who has lectured in Australia, Japan, Mexico, England, Singapore, Malaysia and the Syrian Arab Republic, as well as his native Ireland over the last four decades. He is the author of a number of best-selling books in English and Japanese and has contributed widely to newspapers, TV and radio shows in the USA, Japan, England, Ireland, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Lebanon and Syria.

He has organized and led a number of peace convoys to Syria during 2014 and 2015. He also was present as an accredited international observer in Homs and Damascus during Syria’s 2014 Presidential election. He was the first foreigner to enter Ma’loula on Easter Sunday 2014 when the Syrian Arab Army liberated it and he was also the first foreigner to get into the Armenian town of Kasab after the Syrian Army forced the terrorists back across the Turkish border. He has further humanitarian projects planned for Syria for 2016 and 2017. His radio interviews on Syria and Palestine may be listened to here and Declan may be emailed here.

Existence is Resistance