courtesy: yahoo
The Syrian refuge crisis has reached a woeful milestone: one million displaced refugees at the latest tally totaled just this week.
The city of Tripoli alone, in Lebanon, registers 800 new refugees a day.
They come here to the camps because there is no safety inside the Syrian border. But conditions in the camps is dire, and there is no work for the refugees in Lebanon. The cost of living too high for them to make a living there and re-settle. So most of the refugees are desperate to try and return home, which is an equally desperate prospect.
But things are coming to a head in the camps too. The long civil wars is making camp life unbearable. Just yesterday, riots broke out in a Jordanian camp where refugees attacked a camp employee with stones and sticks.
People are cold, freezing and mired in mud, surrounded by unhealthy conditions as far as the eye can see. If that were not enough, a major snowstorm is predicted to come their way today, which could make things all the worse for the refugees.
Most of the refugees in this camp are also very y
oung, most of them are under the age of 18. This camp alone houses more than 50,000 people.
Rains and snow could trigger mud slides. As it is most tents are sitting on pools of standing, muddy water. Some people can be seen baililng out water with buckets, others desperately trying to make a mud wall around their tent to keep the water out.
With the conflict intensifying and widening, the refugee situation is bound only to get worse.
Source ; Yahoo 3.6.13
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