明爱：叙利亚是世界强权们的足球场无辜者被他们视为脚下的足球

作者 Sandra Awad*

战斗各方用他们的“大鞋”摧毁了基础设施、工厂和建筑。难民、食物告罄、教育、移民、被抛弃的老人和孩子，饱受战争恶果的煎熬。与其说是援助，人们渴望的只有和平。国际和平祈祷日之际，天主教机构发言人发表公开信

大马士革（亚洲新闻）—叙利亚正在上演一场足球赛，这是“国际强国之间的比赛”，叙利亚人民“被当成他们脚下的球”。交战各派用他们的“大鞋”摧毁了基础设施、工厂和建筑；同时，百姓被他们碾碎在脚下。这是叙利亚明爱新闻办公室负责人，三十九岁的两个孩子的母亲在国际为和平祈祷日之际致函本社的公开信中的控诉。

在列举了战争导致的种种灾难后，始终站在援助平民百姓第一线的明爱发言人还指出，人们甚至不希望什么援助了，他们只想着一件事：和平。“我们所有人都梦想，有那么一天，清晨起来后，战斗的噪音停止了；再也不用为运动员的大鞋在我们的土地上践踏感到害怕了。因为游戏已经结束了”。

联合国大会于一九八一年九月三十日指定的国际和平日在每年的九月二十一日举行。联合国的初衷是和平、非暴力，交战中的各国和各族人民都应邀停止敌对状态，至少在这一天里。为此，也是众所周知的“停火日”。

以下为叙利亚明爱负责人发给本社的。全文如下：

Dear Partners and friends,

When we hear the news talking about the truces made between countries about Syria, or the decision of some countries to support some armed groups inside, or the agreements of ceasefire made by foreign governments, or training and sending more fighters to Syria, or the foreign fighting airplanes flying in our sky without permission, we always feel ourselves watching a football game between the big powers of the world on the Syrian land and using the Syrian ball “the Syrian people”.

Unfortunately, what is happening during this game is that the players are destroying with their big shoes while playing the infrastructure, buildings, factories and are crushing the Syrian people, especially the poor ones who became the majority.

After almost six years of war, we as Syrians are exhausted. This war is not only destroying our country, but it is destroying our souls from inside. The war knocked every door in Syria, entered every house, and left behind its traces everywhere, and in every heart….

War made most of us displaced in our own country after we lost all our belongings, our childhood memories and our past….

War let us feel insecure all the time even if we are in our own houses…

War made most of us poor, not being able to buy life necessities or bread for children…

War entered our families from inside, splitting them apart, and causing disintegration…

War made education an unreachable dream for our children and youth…

War made our streets full of homeless people, especially the small ones, the children…

War closed the foreign companies, embassies, destroyed our factories and left most of us without work…

War is increasing the prices of goods and the burden of our lives every day…

War deprived us from electricity, medication and clean water, and took us back to the Stone Age…

War made us shrive during winter without being able to heat ourselves or our children…

War is forcing us every day to say goodbye to our beloved ones who decided to immigrate, especially our young people…

War left our elderlies without anyone to take care of, without dignity in their last period of life…

War let the fighting game be the most amusing one for our children; it entered their discussions, their way of thinking, their playing and hurt their innocent childhood…

The list is very long of the war results on us, and our needs are huge now, especially during this time of the year. The winter is coming, and the schools began recently, which press economically on every Syrian family.

Unfortunately, without our support as Caritas, and the other active NGOs in Syria, a lot of families cannot survive anymore. A lot of families are depending on us, and we always feel that our support is like a drop of water in front of all this thirst. We offer food, medication, rent allowance, clothes, education support, elderly support, and psycho-social support through our projects, but when we ask our beneficiaries about their most urgent need, we mostly will hear this word: PEACE!

All of us need peace to be able to rebuild ourselves, our lives, and our country. We all dream of a day when we wake up in the morning to find out that the fighting between us has stopped, and that we don’t need to be afraid anymore from the big shoes of the football players, as the game is over…

* In charge of communications for Caritas Syria