Paintapaloozastudents Douse End-Of-Semester Stress in an Eruption of Neon Colours
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niagara-news.com RIVER LIONS STILL IN THE HUNT PAGE 16 DRIVEN TO DEADLY DISTRACTION NN PAGE 7 NIAGARA NEWS APRIL 7, 2017 • VOL. 48 ISSUE 13 Family dies PAINTAPALOOZAStudents douse end-of-semester stress in an eruption of neon colours. Story and photos on Pages 8 and 9 waiting for help By ABUBAKER ELGHUL Staff Writer “I saw my mom lying dead.” These sad words spoken by Ali Hamza, a Libyan- Canadian, don’t even begin to tell the whole story. Hamza has been ap- pealing to the UN and the Canadian Government for the past nine months to either evacuate or send food and water to the 30 fami- lies, including his own, still trapped in Ganfouda – a dis- trict near Benghazi, Libya. Hamza’s 77-year-old mother Aalya, his brother Mahmoud and sister Faiza were found dead after their bus broke down while they were escaping to Al-Sabri – a town under control of the Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries. According to Hamza, pictures he found online showed his mother and siblings riddled with bullet wounds. Hamza later found out his other brother Ibrahim and his younger sister Fariha died during a bombing attack in Ganfouda Abhishek Dhillon, a first-year Electronic Engineering Technician student, and Joy Pinkyhan, a first-year Computer Engineering student, relish on Feb. 25. Hamza says the Niagara College’s Paint Party on March 30. PHOTO BY HUGO GARCIA-GONZALEZ picture in which he saw his brother Ibrahim lying dead – he found his brother’s legs were “missing.” Professor wins global X-Culture award Hamza, who lives in Mis- sissauga, says his youngest By RICHA BHOSALE the International Marketing quality of it, the student sister Ibtesam, the sole sur- Staff writer Strategy course which is of- grade average in her class vivor among his siblings, is fered in the third year of the and the professor’s timeli- still being held prisoner by Navjote Khara, co-ordina- program. ness of submitting infor- the Libyan National Army tor at the School of Business The X-Culture project is mation for the X-Culture (LNA) – the group respon- and Management, won best a mandatory component of decision making. sible for his family’s death. instructor for X-Culture, the course and the entire “It’s very challenging for Continued on Page 2 an international business class must participate. me as a professor to guide competition that features Khara says the competi- these students because they around 450 business pro- tion runs for two semesters. face issues like time zone. fessors with their students She teaches this course By the time you receive a re- from various countries only in the Fall term, so ply to your email, maybe the across the globe each year the class can participate in deadline is almost there,” in each term. that period. Each semester said Khara. “It feels happier when the X-Culture project runs “At a personal level you we realize it’s because of for the students across the Navjote Khara is the program co-ordinator in the are learning about new students’ success. If they globe. School of Business Management at Niagara College. technologies out there and wouldn’t have put the effort, Students work the entire BY RICHA BHOSALE it’s satisfying and moti- I wouldn’t have been in that semester on this project. student, best project as well different variables on which vating. The next time the position to be honoured,” Once the project is over, as the best instructor. they judge the professors,” X-Culture runs there will says Khara, 42. a North-Carolina profes- “So apparently, this year I says Khara. be more motivation for me Ali Hamza lost five out of Within the program, sor evaluates the reports She said the most impor- to get students prepared six family members: three Bachelor of Business and on behalf of X-Culture, of best instructors, which tant variables are the class maybe, better than the to gunfire and two to Administration (BBA), it’s gives the award to the best happenis based to on figure the number in the list of submitted report and the earlier,” says Khara. bombing. Page 2 NIAGARA NEWS • April 7, 2017 NEWS Ottawa ‘let us suffer alone’ Continued from Page 1 the LNA have “carried out air Hamza showed them a video Hamza sold his car and According to Human that was played on Libyan travelled to Turkey with his Rights Watch, “The LNA, Ganfouda, killing or wound- National television on Aug. wife and youngest children since early 2014 under the strikesing an unknown and fired numbermortars on 27 where a tribal leader on Feb. 20 to send a supply command of a retired gen- of civilians, and damaging sharing an alliance with the of food, water and medical infrastructure,” throughout LNA announced “all those in care by boat with the help of government, Khalifa Hiftar, the whole ordeal. Ganfouda are to be consid- a local Turkish NGO called eralhas gainedof the ousted control Gaddafi over terri - Both Amnesty Internation- ered a part of ISIS and that IHH. tory in and around Benghazi al and Human Rights Watch women and children will be According to Hamza, since the outbreak of hostili- tried and expelled to Turkey.” another agreement was ties in May 2014.” The group siege in Ganfouda were The tribal leader Al-Eid made through the IHH with belonging to the LNA has laid confirmedreaching near the starvation.families under Ashaykhee announced that the president of the Libyan siege to the district of Gan- They had no access to fresh males in Ganfouda 14 years House of Representatives fouda where combatants of food, water, medical supplies and older would be killed. and the commander-in-chief the Benghazi Shura Council or electricity. When Bensouda watched of the LNA, Aguila Salah, to have taken refuge among the On Jan. 24 families in the video she likened it to deliver aid from Turkey to civilians. Ganfouda reported to Hamza Srebrenica, Bosnia, where, Ganfouda. Hamza says that that children began “eating in the 1990s, 8,000 men Salah told the IHH “to wait upon on Nov. 22 with the their nails” out of starvation and boys were segregated for formal paperwork to be helpA ceasefire of the United was agreedNation and it was “heavy rain (that) from the women and then done.” Hamza settled for two Support Mission in Libya rescued them from dying of slaughtered. Hamza says that weeks in turkey waiting “for (UNSMIL) in order to evacu- thirst.” They also began to they contacted the “higher this to happen,” but it “never ate the remaining families by eat things like “wild plants Ibtesam, Ali Hamza’s sister, a 36-year-old professor and ups at the UN” and quoted did,” he said. “It was just sea. Representatives of the and tree bark to survive,” he the only surviving member of his family, is detained the regrets Deputy Secretary another ploy.” LNA, ignoring international said. by the Libyan National Army. Left, she is pictured General Jan Eliasson shared Hamza was scheduled to Hamza expressed his sometime before the war and on the right, after the last year at the UN meeting return to Canada on March only if the members of the frustration with the UN say- siege when she was captured. SUBMITTED PHOTO that marked the 20th an- 20. He heard of the deaths of law,Shura agreed Council, to a injured ceasefire and ing not a “single shipment niversary of the Srebrenica his family members just the not, remained in Ganfouda. of aid” was delivered to the their previous pledges to He said if the Canadian gov- Massacre. day before. UNSMIL agreed to this and people of Ganfouda since the provide humanitarian help ernment and the UN didn’t “We gather in humility Hamza said he’s now fo- proposed the conditions to siege began even though he to those who need it. ignore his appeals for aid in and regret,” Eliasson said, cused on the case the Libyan the Shura Council. According said he consistently contact- “They didn’t uphold the the form of food and water, “to recognize the failure of American Public Affairs to Hamza, the Shura Council ed and updated both the UN legacy of Canada… They facilitation of an evacuation the United Nations and the declined the conditions in and the Canadian govern- didn’t uphold their state- or just a clear statement con- international community to October against Hifter, Salah the beginning but later in ment throughout the nine ments… they didn’t respect demning the actions of the prevent this tragedy.” Council filed with the ICC in the negotiations agreed so months. our families – they alienated LNA in Ganfouda, they would Hamza contacted Martin the LNA for their alleged the civilians could evacuate. He described his disap- us. They let us suffer alone.” still be alive. On Oct. 27, Kobbler, head of UNSMIL, andwar othercrimes. top He’s officials looking within for Hamza says this agreement pointment in the Canadian Hamza stressed the fact Hamza and his wife visited and Andrew Gilmour, as- more victims, evidence and later fell through when government saying “they that for nine-months he did the International Criminal sistant secretary-general for suspects to help with the members of the LNA decided didn’t honour any of (their) everything within his capa- Court in the Netherlands to Human Rights at the UN, and case. He’s seeking justice for to back out “last minute.” obligations towards hu- bility to try and help his fam- meet with prosecutor Fatou tried several times to con- his family and the families Human Rights Watch re- man rights,” and they didn’t ily in any way possible and Bensouda and the investiga- vince them Ganfouda needs who have died since the war follow through with any of that “the loss was avoidable.” tive team looking into Libya.