He has suffered enormously during the current genocidal war.

One of his brothers and many others in his extended family have been killed. His house and his father’s farmland have been bulldozed.

One day in January, Riyad had just bought flowers for a friend who was injured.

Riyad was heading to visit his friend in hospital, when he stopped at a building that had been bombed. Civil defense workers were searching for people under the rubble and Riyad went to help them.

“We managed to pull three people out, but they were unfortunately taking their last breaths,” Riyad said. ….more