WATCH: Alison Azer appeals to PM and to Canada for the return of her four kids Thousands of supporters joined her on social media, many of them vilifying Azer in the strongest terms. Alison was dismissive of her ex-husband’s latest comments.“What he’s doing is the desperate attempts of a man who’s been on the run for nine months. In the interview, he rejected Alison’s claim that the children were “traumatized and terrified” in their new life in a strange land, away from their mother and friends, where they couldn’t speak the language.“They have never been as well as they are,” he said. Our daily life is filled with joy, all of them are healthy, they are well, they are thriving at school, they are learning languages, they are learning different cultures, different traditions, they are surrounded by their families and they are loved and they are adored.“My children were in a war zone in Canada, they were in a psychological and mental war zone in that country and you could see how their fragile lives were being shattered in front of our eyes.”READ MORE: Rally held for BC mom fighting for return of 4 abducted children Global News obtained copies of medical reports dated 2013 that point to some psychological and physical problems: delayed gross motor skills for one of the children; significant stress and anger in another; and “suicidal ideation” in a third. due to physical harm.”The harm, the social worker said, included “being tied up, slapped and hit.”But, three months later, the same ministry closed its file on Azer and confirmed he had completed a parenting program. Alison says Azer, in his interview with Global News, was exaggerating the children’s emotional and physical issues.“Not only were they not as serious, there were no disorders.

In 2012, Azer says, his son Dersim, then only five, was interviewed by an RCMP officer about an allegation by Alison that Saren had disciplined the boy by tying him to a chair in the basement. In November, 2013, a social worker with the BC Ministry of Children and Family development said in a letter to Alison that “your children are in need of protection from your ex-husband . The children were seen by a long list of healthcare professionals during the period of time that we spent reaching our joint custody agreement.“I think that those papers are a matter of public record via the courts and in no way speak to the conditions or disorders that I think he’s finding it convenient to manufacture at this stage of game being an international fugitive.”Saren Azer, a high-profile humanitarian doctor who once appeared in a video with former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, says he was overwrought by what he saw happening to his children.“When I was working in the ICU, almost on a weekly basis I would resuscitate teenagers with suicide attempts.

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(He would not tell Global News the name of the city.)Now Azer is a hunted man, wanted by the RCMP and Interpol on abduction charges.

In an emotional Canada-wide campaign, Azer’s ex-wife, Alison Jeffrey, has pleaded with the Canadian government to do something to have the children returned. And really his actions speaks to his desperation that he must be feeling knowing that authorities are circling in on him.”Nine months passed before Saren Azer responded publicly to the storm his actions have generated.

He married Alison Jeffrey in 2002 and they separated ten years later.

What followed was a bitter fight over access to the four children, Sharvahn, 11, Rojevahn, 9, Dersim, 7 and Meitan, 3.