CAUSE OF SYRIAN REFUGEE ‘CRISIS’ IS IRANIAN REGIME’S SUPPORT FOR MASS MURDER AND SECTARIAN CLEANSING IN SYRIA EU and UN should send bills for dealing with millions of Syrian refugees to Tehran The Hague, 11 September 2015 – The campaign group Naame Shaam (1) today said the […]
Read more →As the Syrian regime announced its plans to hold presidential elections in June 2014, the Huffington Post published a good summary of why this is “another cruel joke played on Syria’s suffering population.” The five reasons listed by Eline Gordts’ article, which was published on 21 April […]
Read more →The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has released a new, moving short film following the agency’s Special Envoy Angelina Jolie as she visits a Syrian refugee camp in al-Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, and meets with 11-year-old Hala and her five orphan siblings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLpj9u_QXjk EDITOR’S COMMENT: It […]
Read more →This little boy hanged by Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is Handala, the iconic representative of the Palestinian refugees. He was created by Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali, who was shot dead by an unknown assassin in 1987. Handala, as al-Ali once said, “has promised the people that he […]
Read more →– Syrian sheikh close to the regime issues ‘rape fatwa’ – Syrian regime’s ‘electronic army’ hacks Skype – Turkey building another wall on Syrian border SYRIAN SHEIKH CLOSE TO THE REGIME ISSUES ‘RAPE FATWA’ The second deputy of the Syrian mufti, the country’s highest religious authority, has […]
Read more →A short video (5 min) about a Syrian student who sits in a tent in the middle of nowhere in sub-zero temperatures in order to experience how millions of Syrian refugees are surviving in such conditions. His original intention was to do that for 12 hours, but […]
Read more →Jadaliyya has published a moving report by two American academics summarising one aspect of their research on the plight of Syrian refugees. In numerous interviews they conducted last summer, they asked Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon this question: “What do you miss most?” The responses they […]
Read more →A very moving and well-made series of photo-journalistic reports published by the Washington Post about the plight of Syrian refugees. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/syrian-refugees/story/refuge/
Read more →One of the survivors tells the story of the boat, carrying some 500 Syrian and Syrian-Palestinian migrants, that sank near the shores of Italy, having been shot at by the Libyan coastguards and appealed in vain for help from the Italian coastguards.
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