Blog Post 3: Syria & Bosnia

Link to article:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9107216/Syria-citizens-from-across-country-risk-life-to-help-Homs.html

            The article Syria: citizens from across country risk life to help Homs’s intended audience is anyone who is interested in aiding other humans that are in need for help. The purpose of this article is to inform people of the attempts of Syrian citizens to help their fellow brothers from Homs to survive. This is clearly shown in the title “Citizens…risk life to help Homs”. Also in the article itself it describes actual attempts by Syrians: "I travel by public minibus, hiding small amounts of medicines and money at the bottom of my bag". Another Syrian said “We ran across the rooftops…I had a backpack full of medicine…I could hear bullets smacking into the sides of the walls as snipers tried to shoot us”.

            This article best connects to the event in Safe Area Goražde where Edin was going to Grebak. In both the article and that event the main goal was getting supplies for survival. For example, in the article, the Syrian citizen Sana said she would “travel by public minibus, hiding small amounts of medicines and money at the bottom of [her] bag". She would then give those supplies to needy people for them to survive. Similarly, in Safe Area Goražde Edin and others went to Grebak to get food and supplies in order for them, their families, and neighbors to survive: “We didn’t have any choice. My father went three times to Grebak, my brother and I two times each” Sacco, 2001, p. 136). In conclusion, the article best connects to the event where Edin went to Grebak. This is because in both people were trying to help themselves or others survive.