ISTANBUL // Seven-year-old Syrian girl Bana Al Abed, who came to international attention with her tweets giving a tragic first-hand account of the war in Aleppo, has written an open letter to new US president Donald Trump.
Bana, who was evacuated from the besieged city to Turkey in December, appealed to Mr Trump to help the children of Syria, the BBC reported.
“I am part of the Syrian children who suffered from the Syrian war,” she wrote, according to a transcript of the letter.
She told Mr Trump her school in Aleppo was destroyed by the bombing and some of her friends had died.
“Right now in Turkey, I can go out and enjoy. I can go to school although I didn’t yet. That is why peace is important for everyone including you.
“However, millions of Syrian children are not like me right now and suffering in different parts of Syria,” she wrote.
“You must do something for the children of Syria because they are like your children and deserve peace like you.”
Through her descriptions of life in besieged Aleppo on her @AlabedBana Twitter account, Bana became a symbol of the tragedy unfolding in Syria, although the government had criticised her and her mother’s nearly daily tweets as propaganda.
* Agence France-Presse
