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Official count of Syrian refugees tops 1.4 million

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syria_refugees_001The number of Syrians who have fled their conflict-ravaged homeland has surpassed 1.4 million, the United Nations refugee agency said Friday, warning that it was no longer able to meet their medical needs.

As of Thursday, the total number of Syrians registered as refugees was 1,401,435, the UNHCR said.

“This corresponds to 30 percent more than the total envisaged under the current Regional Refugee Response Plan by end June 2013,” it underlined.

The UNHCR said it has received just 55 percent of the funding it has sought to help cope with the crisis.

“We cannot deal with all cases and the costs,” Paul Spiegel, deputy director of the UNHCR’s program department, told reporters in Geneva.

Syrians have been pouring out of their country since March 2011, when a crackdown on protests against the regime of President Bashar Assad heralded the start of an armed rebellion.

Numbers surged as the conflict morphed into an increasingly sectarian civil war, and the total topped a million in March this year.

The overwhelming majority of the refugees have fled to neighboring Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Jordan.

A major difficulty for the UNHCR is the growing number of Syrians living beyond refugee camps, which makes it harder to run programs to help them.

The UNHCR underlined that because the Syrian population’s pre-war health profile was similar to that of other middle-income nations, the refugees need more than basic care directly linked to the impact of the conflict.

For example, a significant proportion of the elderly refugees need treatment for chronic illnesses such as cancer or cardiovascular disease.

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10 responses to “Official count of Syrian refugees tops 1.4 million”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Now becoming the size of a small country. As I said two years ago, give them the Golan Heights. They won’t bother Israel, which could help them with tools for farms and defend that territory for them. It could become the world’s first Un-armed country. Put that in their ‘constitution’. Imagine …
    Too simple, of course.

    1. Reasonableman Avatar
      Reasonableman

      Haha your in the right state of mind you must be off the scotch. Good idea but way too simple for both sides

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Simple is the only way to really fix some things. You know there is a problem, you identify the problem, you fix the problem. Throwing other ‘theories’ into it, and ‘dialoguing’ about it forever, fixes nothing, but only makes it worse.
        Here .. People are getting disease and starving/freezing/boiling in assorted ‘camps’ where the cost of running around to all of them removes money for food and medical from ‘the pot’. Get them together (quick travel arrangements) into a safe place with ‘gathered services’, give them something to do (building energy-efficient houses?), and remove all weapon possibilities so they don’t hurt each other.
        (except hammers. of course. 😉
        (The assumption is, naturally, that ‘we’ really wish to help.)

        1. Reasonableman Avatar
          Reasonableman

          A human needs very little to live,try and add up in kgs how much food weve eaten and didnt need, really i speak for myself aslong as there is a roof ontop of my head and some food ill be ok if tomorrow comes ill think about how to get my food. Problem is money hungry people and governments. If what you speak of happens israel who have golan heights will make them work harder to get more money to support there wars and businessess and lifestyles the poor people may not know any better over work themselves lose themselves arguments start governments get nasty etc. Etc. Sometimes it seems technology is the most evil creation and sometimes it is the greatest lol

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            True. 😉 Speaking of ‘good tech’ … Actually, the BBC has a very good series of articles on how a Poor Brit can survive – healthily – on a minimum-expense diet.

  2. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Now becoming the size of a small country. As I said two years ago, give them the Golan Heights. They won’t bother Israel, which could help them with tools for farms and defend that territory for them. It could become the world’s first Un-armed country. Put that in their ‘constitution’. Imagine …
    Too simple, of course.

    1. Reasonableman Avatar
      Reasonableman

      Haha your in the right state of mind you must be off the scotch. Good idea but way too simple for both sides

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Simple is the only way to really fix some things. You know there is a problem, you identify the problem, you fix the problem. Throwing other ‘theories’ into it, and ‘dialoguing’ about it forever, fixes nothing, but only makes it worse.
        Here .. People are getting disease and starving/freezing/boiling in assorted ‘camps’ where the cost of running around to all of them removes money for food and medical from ‘the pot’. Get them together (quick travel arrangements) into a safe place with ‘gathered services’, give them something to do (building energy-efficient houses?), and remove all weapon possibilities so they don’t hurt each other.
        (except hammers. of course. 😉

        1. Reasonableman Avatar
          Reasonableman

          A human needs very little to live,try and add up in kgs how much food weve eaten and didnt need, really i speak for myself aslong as there is a roof ontop of my head and some food ill be ok if tomorrow comes ill think about how to get my food. Problem is money hungry people and governments. If what you speak of happens israel who have golan heights will make them work harder to get more money to support there wars and businessess and lifestyles the poor people may not know any better over work themselves lose themselves arguments start governments get nasty etc. Etc. Sometimes it seems technology is the most evil creation and sometimes it is the greatest lol

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            True. 😉 Speaking of ‘good tech’ … Actually, the BBC has a very good series of articles on how a Poor Brit can survive – healthily – on a minimum-expense diet.

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