Eastern Ghoutaの記事メモ

BBC Syria war: Jets strike rebel-held Eastern Ghouta as evacuation stalls 6 Apr 2018

BBC Eastern Ghouta Syria: The neighbourhoods below the bombs 29 March 2018

「In one district, 93% of buildings had been damaged or destroyed by December, according to UN satellite imagery analysis.」

「A bundle of bread cost close to 22 times the national average as the government assault began, and 11.9% of children under five years old were acutely malnourished - the highest rate recorded in Syria since the beginning of the war」

BBC Syria war: Troops mass around last rebel town in Eastern Ghouta 28 March 2018

BBC Syria war: First rebels leave defeated Eastern Ghouta town 22 March 2018

BBC In Syria's Eastern Ghouta, a doctor's battle: 'We will stay until the end' 17 March 2018　By Joel Gunter

　新鮮な水なしに医療活動を、というのも無理な話だ。

「 "Many could be saved. In London they could be saved. In Ghouta we cannot do anything. We try to stop the bleeding and make it OK for them, then we allow them to die."」

「This week, a five-year-old boy arrived at Dr Hamid's hospital with multiple trauma wounds and fractures in both his legs and arms. Dr Hamid sutured the boy's wounds and amputated one of his arms and one of his legs at the upper thigh. "That is his future," Dr Hamid said. But the boy is alive, that is a success」

　生きてるだけで上等、成功、という世界。

「"The patients are also our family," he said. "We will carry on treating them until all the medication is gone. Until we stand with nothing. Until the last minutes."」

　最後の手が尽くされるまでそこに留まろうというのだが、医者としての責任感だけではなく、そこが故郷であるがため、でもある：

「"They came here from all around to smell the fresh air and the rivers and the trees," he said. "To me it was a paradise on the Earth."

Now he prays in his cramped shelter at night that his children will one day see the place he can still conjure in his mind, "as green as it was when I was a boy".

"It may be too late for me," he said, "but God willing, our children will see these days."」