Students raise awareness on Syria
Students raise awareness on Syria
- April 15, 2013
- Sabreen Shalabi, political science major, is featured in the Orange County Register UCI special section April 15, 2013
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From the OC Register:
After a mortar attack killed at least 10 students at Damascus University, concerned
UC Irvine and Cal State Fullerton students banded together April 4 to hold a vigil
in Irvine in remembrance of those killed and other victims of the fighting in Syria.
“It really hits home when they’re killing university students who are supposed to
be the intellect of our generation, the engineers and the doctors, who are supposed
to rebuild Syria after the falling of the regime,” said Sabreen Shalabi, 21, a fourth-year
student at UCI who helped organize the vigil. It was unclear who fired the mortar
rounds that killed at least 10 students on March 28, with the Syrian government and
rebels blaming each other, according to Associated Press reports. Since the start
of the civil unrest in Syria, many Syrian-American students have taken it upon themselves
to be at the forefront of activism.
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