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Jason Kenny: Canada is responsible for 8% of the air strikes on Daesh
Mr. Madloum Marouki representative of
the Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council in Canada, met with Mr. Jason
Kenney, the Canadian Defense Minister last Friday inside the campus of the
University of Toronto, after the minister’s receipt of his new office as the
secretary of defense. The two sides talked about the situation of the
Christians and the Yezidis in Iraq, where they face killing, displacement and
massacres at the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq (Daesh), the minister said
that he is fully aware of what is happening in the Middle East in general and
Iraq in particular, and he added: “That the international coalition against
terrorism currently consists of 24 countries, and Canada is responsible for 8%
of the air strikes against the organization’s sites” and he confirmed “ It is impossible
to defeat the cancer of Daesh without the international coalition, and the
Canadian Forces cannot work alone in isolation from the cooperation of the Iraqi
forces, as the Canadian air force bomb the organization’s sites inside Iraqi
territory, following that the Iraqi forces’ seize of those areas.”. The
Canadian Minister wished that the Government of Iraq, headed by Dr. Haider
al-Abadi will unite the ranks of the Iraqi fighters so as to overcome this
(cancer)!
Mr. Marouki thanked the Government of Canada for its humanitarian and military
aid to Iraq and Iraqis, especially the Christians who are currently estimated
to (200-300) thousand people, living in the cities and villages of Kurdistan Region
in safety and peace, the MP asked the Minister to increase the Canadian humanitarian
aid and the military support for the troops fighting in the vicinity of the
Nineveh Plain and Sinjar Plain, he also called on the international coalition to
send ground forces to hold the freed lands as an assistant to Iraqi forces for
the Liberation of Mosul, so that people can return to their homes and villages.
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