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Qusai Zakarya

Syrian activist Qusai Zakarya stands as he is recognized by US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council at UN headquarters in New York on May 22, 2014.

‘In a dark place like Syria, just saying the truth is something more valuable than you can imagine’

August 21, 2014Conflict

After surviving a siege and chemical weapons, Qusai Zakarya became an activist in his native Syria. Now in the US, he reflects on the death of “true martyr” James Foley, the American journalist who died at the hands of ISIS this week — and blasts the Obama administration for not acting in Syria.

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