Baladi - Coverage
The two CNN senior international correspondents Nick Paton Walsh and Arwa Damon have visited the displaces people camps, and spoke with survivors of the chemical attack on Douma, in the Eastern Ghouta.
Arwa Damon said that it was a big challenge for her to get the people to talk to her, the people who fundamentally believe that nobody cares about what they’re going through.
"It’s the hardest thing to walk into a refugee camp and try to talk to people who look at you and say, ‘What’s the point of talking to you? Why should we tell you what happened to us? We’ve been talking to you and trying to tell our story for the last six years and the world is making a mockery of us," she said.
Although Nick Paton Walsh was covering the war of Syria for 6 years, he said it's still difficult to look people in the face and say, “Tell me your story because people are paying attention,” when often they’re not.
The journalists asked the survivors of the chemical attack about what they had gone through that night, and they gave their testimonies.
A witness told the CNN correspondent she could barely breath, she dragged her daughters and tried to find her way out of the basement, but then the other air strikes began. They were between two deaths she said, the first of the chemical attack and the second of the non stop air strike.
Source: CNN