In fact, as I discussed several times, we are here in the west and when we'd like to interfere we ask what is our interest to interfere, but we never ask ourselves what we could lose if we don't interfere.
The war started in Syria peacefully, as I mentioned. There were demonstrations, and the government forces and the police confronted them with bullets and killed a lot of them. It moved from a peaceful demonstration to a civil war. Then during these three years, there are lots of militant groups and hardliners, terrorists, whatever, and then the country splits.
There's the government elite, the Alawites, and the Shias, and Hezbollah, and Iran, and the Iraqi forces. Shia forces are fighting against Sunni Muslims. They come from different places, from Saudi Arabia, maybe Jordan, and other places. The war is not easy to stop without political will from the international community at a certain level.
The problem in Syria is not a matter of just food or shelter. The bloodshed needs to stop in Syria. A lot of people are dying every day. Yesterday, the regime bombarded an elementary school for children in Aleppo, and tens of children were killed. The international community turned a blind eye to that, and that's it. This is a war, and they did not do anything to stop it.
I'm quite sure that when the regime hit southern Damascus with chemical weapons, the Americans said they would attack. Russia and China took three vetoes in the last three years against stopping or condemning the war. The people then start to create any way just to prevent the regime from this attack, and when they said they would give the chemical weapons, the Americans said that they wouldn't attack.
Killing 1,000 people in one night by chemical weapons is not very different from killing thousands of innocent people and children during a month, for instance, by explosives, and by the [Inaudible—Editor] of the regime. The international community should do something.
Concerning the women and men who were sexually assaulted during the war, I think the only way to help is to.... I'm sorry to say this, but the case is not referred to the International Criminal Court by the Security Council, and the prosecutor herself is not moving to investigate. She's not doing her part under article 13 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
There are even two parties to the Rome Statute, the U.K. and France, who lost lives there. Some of their citizens were killed, and they did not move. They can refer the case to the ICC, to the prosecutor under article 13, but they did not move.
It seems to me that the international community does not care. It's just sending some food to refugee camps here and there, and that's it. I encourage the victims to go to national courts with universal jurisdictions like Canadian courts, like courts in Belgium, France, and the U.K. Go and take legal action against the people who are responsible for these crimes.