I and many other Canadians have been concerned about the horrible conflict in Syria since 2013 because Putin and Assad are despotic leaders who can not stand any critique from their people even a fourteen year old boy.  Dr. B. Assad has tortured, imprisoned, starved, gassed and bombed  his own people along with the erratic bombing ordered by Putin.  They have mass murdered over 500 thousand innocent people and many children, 7 million have fled to other surrounding countries only to live in camps.  This is a genocide and the perpetrators must be brought to justice and charged with Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes.  And currently Assad and Putin are using the innocent people of Syria in their war games.  Some take the stop and go busses out of Syria only to end up in areas in Syria that will be bombed again.  No wonder some people are beginning to retaliate against this humiliation.  When you treat people as unequal or sub-human you are creating a rebel.  This war was for power.