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It is being fought between two sides of the same country – supporters of the president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, and the rebels – although countries such as Russia are helping fund al-Assad. More than 250,000 people have died in the five-year Syrian war. “We haven’t seen the political pressure exerted on the players. This is an issue of the world turning its back on the Syrian people,” says McNeil, a Walkley-Award-winning journalist who is based in Lebanon and has been reporting on the Middle East for 10 years. It wasn’t delivered because the Syrian government didn’t give them permission to go to those areas.” “We did a story about the town Madaya… The UN had the food - it was in warehouses in Damascus 40 kilometres away. “This is how we helped to end the war in Bosnia – by public awareness and pressure.”ĪBC journalist Sophie McNeil agrees, saying that aid agencies and the UN have the food and equipment to help the besieged Syrians. These things add up."ĭi Giovanni, who has reported from some of the most dangerous places on earth – from Iraq to Libya and Syria, says that only public pressure will put a stop to the Syrian conflict. "They will be angry and sad and they will feel the need to do something – like writing a letter. 
“This is the first step, because when people are aware they can make a louder noise," says Di Giovanni, who wrote The Morning They Came For Us, Dispatches from Syria.
Over the next few days you'll almost certainly be encouraged to like a Facebook post or donate money, but journalists Sophie McNeil of the ABC and veteran war correspondent Janine di Giovanni say the singular most important thing you can do is to get informed about the Syrian civil war and then exert pressure on Australia to act. Hearing these kind of reports and seeing these horrific images can make you feel helpless. Syrian man Abdul-Hameed al-Youssef, 29, carries his twin babies who were killed in a chemical weapons attack in Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib province, northern Syria, April 4, 2017.
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