Cyprus (AP) - No one knows people of how long Bushr Al Tawashi hovering before the ruins of his home, in the Syrian capital, rebels found the child and handed him over to the care of another family.
Now, 2 years old and his parents - who believe he has been killed.
In the confusion they hastily fled the fighting between government forces and rebels in Syria, Bushr's parents had thought that the boy was picked up by other members of the extended family, who together with them when the outbreak conflict last summer in the Damascus suburb of aluminum Kaboun.
The fierce battle to prevent back Bushr search time they came to a refugee camp, and realized that he was missing parents, Stella Constance Tan Dingnu Cyprus lawyer said.
I believe that he did not survive the shelling, the little boy's father was heartbroken the Machhour aluminum Tawashi, and his wife, the ARIN aluminum Dakkar, arrived in Cyprus on August 6, along with their two sons, aged 4 and 6 years old, to seek asylum.
The word boy eventually reach the safety of the parents, they now live in the coastal city of Limassol.
"Can you imagine how they feel when they are told that their son was still alive, taking into account all these guilt that he was already dead, Constantinou said.
The aluminum Tawashi told The Associated Press through an interpreter, someone has recognized Bushr because everyone knows each other in their tight-knit community, and called on the good news to the family of Cyprus.
The family, and then ask, Constantinou help and took him to the Mediterranean island, located 65 miles (105 kilometers) west of Syria.
The aluminum Tawashi sister, Cyprus's accession to the family to return voluntarily to care for their children DAMASCUS, Sept. 9, until you can arrange for his return. She is now prevented from leaving the Syrian capital said the lawyer.
The process accelerated by the Cyprus Ministry of Foreign Affairs, after the reunion of the boy and his family, and his parents to provide proof that he is their child. Bushr father, then to the Lebanese capital, Beirut, where he was able to reunite with their families, the little boy Embassy in Cyprus. He brought the Bushr back to the island on Thursday.
"I can not put into words how I feel, when I saw him, just to see him again ecstatic base Tawashi said Friday. "At first, he did not know me, but then we hugged each other, and he began to be called" father, father. '
The aluminum Tawashi, but his relatives in Syria, his home was destroyed in the battle, there is no way the family will never go back.
"Absolutely not," said the father.
Activists say at least 35,000 people have been killed in Syria since the uprising began in March 2011 against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
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