None of them could believe they had found them. shelter In a concrete labyrinth this would be his salvation. Or at least for now. But stories that occur outside of the isolated Shatila refugee campinside Beirutmanages to glide through narrow streets. “We hear what many people are saying. deported to Syria and they disappeared or died within a few days. Ahed Huran. This mother of five children, originally IdlibHe arrived in Shatila 11 years ago, shortly after the outbreak of the epidemic. civil war inside that Syria local. So far, her life has not been as she imagined, but “thank God” she and her family feel safe. And this is a treasure from where they came from. Although his calm has been broken lately. This Lebanese authorities undertaken big campaign for deport hundreds of citizens Syria.
“Certainly we are afraid”admits Ahed, 29. He dares to speak for everyone. They’re about twenty women, all Syrian female refugees, meeting at the studio of Alsama every week. This organization gives them space to embroider, but in reality the cross-stitch is an excuse to meet up and unload. During his ten-year exile in Shatila, historic palestine refugee campisolated them from the rest of the Lebanese capital, but now protects them. Neither the police nor the Lebanese Army dare to enter the area. forest cables, drug trafficking, possession of illegal weapons and the insecurity that this camp has fallen into. Therefore, neither they nor their families can be the target of attacks. refund has been given.
restrictions on Syrians
Only between April and May, at least 1,100 Syrian citizens has been arrested in Lebanon. Some 73 raids led to the deportation of 600 people. In many cases, the Syrian Army returns them when they return. smugglers Despite the deplorable situation they live in, they are demanding large sums to bring them to Lebanon, where the majority prefer to be. “Our situation has changed a lot in recent weeks,” he says. Ayse, who prefers to hide under a name that does not belong to him. Anonymity protects these women. “Everything is much more difficult, we I’m afraid to go to workadmits to this newspaper.
In many municipalities, councils have introduced new restrictions such as: record All Syrian citizens in the region raidsor mandatory curfew. “If all Syrians leave Lebanon, this country will end because most of the workers are Syrians,” he explains. muna, also from Idlib. “So I don’t understand why they hate us,” she admits. Thousands of Syrian refugees, including their children, are doing the hardest jobs in the fields or in construction. There are currently some 839,000 refugees Registered with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). However, Lebanese authorities 1.5 millionAlthough the government’s request from UNHCR to stop new arrivals from 2015 precludes the real number from being known.
Assad returns to Arab League
“The Lebanese are attacking us because they believe it. we received more humanitarian aid than them, but that’s not true,” he accuses Love, under the name of another invention. “UNHCR gives us 1,100,000 Lebanese pounds a month. [poco más de 11 euros]I don’t even have enough money for one of my kids to go to school,” says Muna. economic collapse between Lebanon already vulnerable Syrian society extreme poverty, with figures over 90%. “If the situation in Syria was good, I wouldn’t be here, but unfortunately that is out of our hands,” says Ahed. “We had everything in our country, we could find anything we wanted,” he recalls. Ghofran Port of a Syria that no longer exists
Moreover come back between syrian dictator beshar Esad for Arab League makes your condition worse. “We are against his re-entry, he is not our president,” Aisha criticizes. This gesture of some Arab countries that supported the popular uprising in 2011 was a confirmation of what happened. defeat of the revolution. Many are starting to use it to send refugees back to a Syria they find safe. “They made this decision for the return of Assad without making our country better,” Aisha adds. Life in a devastated country war, sanctions international and earthquake Not life. “It’s all the regime’s fault, I don’t want to return to a country with the same regime,” Muna says.
scapegoats
Meanwhile, on this side of the mountain range, the murmurs are silent as they pass. “We notice even when we go to the market, they whisper ‘Syrians,’ and then say a series of bad words,” says Ghofran. “Lebanese think that we Syrians don’t understand anything, we don’t have a culture as if we came from nowhere,” Ahed says. “It really hurts my heart when I hear something like that on the street,” he adds. Speeches by ministers and presidents The Syrian population as the source of all ills in Lebanon fired up in recent months anti-Syrian rhetoric. Focusing on deportations, Lebanese authorities enslaved Syrians by remaining passive in the face of the country’s economic collapse. scapegoats Perfect.
“What do I think about the future?” he grumbled. “I wonder if everything will be better tomorrow or will it be worse again; first of all, I think of my children, there is no future if we stay in this situation.” lack of opportunity between Syrians, this time to access education. Across the room, Muna reminds her that everything that happens to them is good. “You know, we’re all Syrians, but we’re from different parts of the country, so we wouldn’t have met if we weren’t here,” she explains. And the smiles that cause smiles from other friends. By the way, don’t refuse, at least they have I’m lucky to meet, wealth to have.