A little bit of good news english.rfi.fr/middle-east/20141210-un-vouchers-syrian-refugees-saved-unprecedented-flood-donations but if you read the news behind the news the Western world - the EU, UK, US, Canada, etc. including little backwater Oz - have largely turned their back on Syrian refugees . . . The Syrian civil war has now created more than 3 million refugees, the United Nations reported last week. (If anything, that tally is too low, as the U.N. only counts people who have officially registered as refugees.) U.N. officials are now calling this the biggest humanitarian emergency of our era. Jordan has taken in 608,000 Syrian refugees, Turkey has 815,000, and Lebanon has accepted approximately 1.1 million, according to the U.N. Many have also escaped to Iraq, Egypt, and other countries across the Middle East. But hidden beneath this mammoth figure lies an even sadder story: More than half of these refugees are children. That is a startling tragedy. An entire generation of Syrian children have been brutalized by violence, driven from their homes, and forced to bear the weight of a war they did not start. .
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:36:41 +0000
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