Zaki Kaf Al-Ghazal
Zaki Kaf Al-Ghazal is the Media and Advocacy Officer of the Syrian Association of Yorkshire having completed an LLM in Legal and Political Theory at the University of York, he is currently a PhD candidate at the same university’s Law School.
Items by Zaki Kaf Al-Ghazal
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- August 19, 2019 Zaki Kaf Al-Ghazal
Six years after the chemical attack in Ghouta, have we learnt its lessons?
In the aftermath of the August 2013 chemical weapons attack in Ghouta, Syria, the then British Prime Minister David Cameron said, “Our inaction in Syria shows we have not learnt the lessons of the Holocaust the lessons of not standing by.” The words chosen by Cameron and others...
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- June 12, 2019 Zaki Kaf Al-Ghazal
Assad’s war crimes include the systematic targeting of hospitals, yet go unpunished
Although many reports touch on the political and humanitarian situation in Syria, little has been said about the medical situation in the war-torn country, and the plight of its doctors who remain there. The conflict has raged for eight years with no end in sight. The uprising against Bashar...
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- May 21, 2019 Zaki Kaf Al-Ghazal
The Syrian regime’s slogan ‘Assad or we burn the country’ must not become reality
The bombardment of Idlib by Syrian regime forces over the past few weeks has been relentless; the long anticipated offensive on the city in northern Syria has arrived with devastating results. A massacre of gargantuan proportions awaits as air strikes hit homes, schools and hospitals. More than 120 civilians...
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- March 11, 2019 Zaki Kaf Al-Ghazal
Eight years on, we must say sorry to Syria
This week is the eighth anniversary of the conflict in Syria. The death toll is well over half a million and over half the population has been internally or externally displaced as of last year. The conflict has transformed countless lives forever, and in a world where it is...
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- September 4, 2018 Zaki Kaf Al-Ghazal
We cannot have an ugly peace in Syria
Former US President Jimmy Carter penned an opinion piece in the New York Times recently in which he detailed how it would be wise for the government of Bashar Al-Assad in Syria to remain in power and how the West can slowly start to re-establish relations with it as...