Volunteer medic killed in Syrian invasion

A volunteer medic from the aid organization Free Burma Rangers was killed on Sunday as Turkey and the extremists it supports in the invasion of Syria attacked a road where the medics were located. It is one of many human rights violations that have taken place since October 6 when the US said it would withdraw from the border in Syria and open the airspace to Turkish airstrikes. It is believed that 300,000 people have fled from the formerly peaceful area. Christian minority towns have recently come under assault and Syrian jihadist groups supported by Turkey have filmed themselves murdering prisoners, looting homes and mutilating dead bodies.

“I miss you and love you very much,” wrote Dave Eubank of the Free Burma Rangers about his colleague Zau Seng who was killed on Sunday. “Thank you for showing me how to live, for putting a light on the world. I will miss you until I see you again in heaven.”

According to the Free

Burma Rangers (FBR), Seng was killed by a mortar shell that hit their critical control point. An Iraqi coordination was also wounded. Seng was from Burma.

The FBR have been serving at the front line in Iraq and Syria for years aiding all sides in conflicts. In Syria they helped many of the people fleeing ISIS areas in the spring of 2019 and they have delivered playgrounds to Raqqa. When the Turkish invasion began on October 9 they rushed to give assistance to people fleeing. FBR is a faithbased relief organization that includes believers from different religions. Its members are guided by “help, hope and love.”

Eubank has been speaking out frequently on media about the situation in Syria. On October 30, he said that his group appealed to the US to stand with those under attack. “There have been too many displaced, too many wounded and too many killed.” He gave an interview to CNN not long before today’s mortar attack killed his colleague.