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Kassem Eid almost died in a sarin gas attack in Syria in 2013.

He was born and raised on the outskirts of Damascus under the Assad regime.

Kassem now lives in Germany after he was helped to escape the country which he one day hopes to return to. But not until there is no more Assad.

Here, the author of My Country: A Syrian Memoir tells Sky News about the night he was poisoned by a sarin gas attack, and the work he is doing to finally end the suffering of innocent people in Syria.

I was asleep, and all of a sudden I couldn't breathe.

My eyes were burning and my heart felt like it was going to explode.

It was a chemical attack.

It happened in the middle of the night on 21 August 2013.

I was stumbling around trying to wash my face to ease the burning. My eyes felt like they were being poked with needles.

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My roommates and I ran outside to unthinkable scenes.

It hurts to talk about what I saw that day.

Dozens of men, women and children writhing around on the ground, foaming, retching.

A little boy who had turned to different shades of blue, unconscious.

This is the Assad regime.

I've seen women getting raped, I've seen children blown to pieces.

I have watched children starve to death and held them while they were suffocating after chemical attacks.

I finally left Syria in 2014 after two years of bombardment and chemical weapons attacks and all kinds of brutal massacres.

I went to the US where I tirelessly worked to deliver the brutal message of what is happening in Syria.

I met officials from the US state department, the White House, the Pentagon, the UN Security Council.

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I applied for asylum in the US in 2015, and I just left in 2016 out of frustration - Obama had let us all down.

He failed to act on the "red line" he drew on chemical weapons.

I just couldn't stay there anymore.

I had planned to go back to Syria to stay with some friends, but they were killed, so I had no choice but to change my plans at the last minute. I went to live in Germany.

The US disappointed millions of people who marched the streets in 2011.

We were not asking for a war.

We never wanted Islamic State or ISIS; we just wanted elections after 40 years of the same family ruling the country and killing thousands of people.

Bashar is doing what his dad did on a much larger scale.

Syria is turning into ruins.

All I care about is Syria. If I can stop the killing in Syria I will be happy for the rest of my life.

I really hope US defence secretary James Mattis means it when he says he won't rule out military action, because military action is the answer.

We have tried to reason with a psychopath dictator who doesn't understand anything but death and destruction.

Bashar al Assad is not a man - he is a monster.

It is about time we acted. Seven years. Almost 700,000 people killed. We have paid a very high price for freedom.

Bashar al Assad didn't build Syria, he just f* destroyed it.