Month: April 2015

Stephen Karmazyn for Centretown News
On the 27th anniversary of a massacre in Iraq, Kurds in Ottawa discuss ways to counteract ISIS while commemorating Halabja. Sighs and moans came from all over the small auditorium. The audience took in pictures of a mass exodus from the husk of a fallen city. They were told of the horrors in Syria and Iraq. They were shown gasp-inducing numbers on the refugee crisis. Each moan and sigh marked another casualty in the war for hearts and minds.  In the struggle against the social media juggernaut that is ISIS, those moans and sighs are war cries from an altogether different battlefield.