Syrian Opposition Urges 'End to Racism' against Refugees in Lebanon
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
The Syrian National Coalition demanded on Thursday putting an end to the “racist practices” against Syria's refugees in Lebanon.
"We call for putting an end to the racist practices, discrimination, oppression and even physical attacks of some Lebanese religious communities against Syrian refugees,” SNC said in a released statement.
The statement called on the international community “to provide the largest possible support to Lebanese authorities, to enable them to deal with the huge numbers of refugees that were forced to flee their houses, escaping the criminality of (Syrian President Bashar) Assad.”
The SNC lauded a solidarity campaign against racism launched by Lebanese activists on social media websites to “highlight the difficult conditions Syrian refugees are going through in Lebanon.”
The statement was referring to a popular campaign launched as a response to a press conference by former telecommunications minister Nicolas Sehnaoui and Free Patriotic Movement official Ziad Abs, during which the two men called for protecting citizens in the Beirut neighborhood of Ashrafieh, after the increase in the number of refugees.
The two FPM officials also called for closing the border with Syria “because Lebanon can not bear receiving more refugees.”
SNC's statement also pointed out to the growing “phenomenon of refugee suicide, through which Syrians aim at escaping their difficult conditions.”
"This is a very dangerous phenomenon that should not be overlooked,” the coalition stressed. “Their life conditions were worse than death, and that's what drove them to commit suicide.”
The UNHCR announced on Thursday that the number of Syrian refugees who have fled their war-torn country and came to Lebanon has reached 1 million.
According to the UNHCR, refugees from Syria, half of them children, now equal a quarter of Lebanon's resident population, warning that most of them live in poverty and depend on aid for survival.
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Y.R.
03 April 2014, 21:04
710
The FSA-Al Qaeda jihadist terrorist organization can shut their mouths and show some gratitude towards Lebanon. The refugees are suffering because of the crimes committed by these cannibal jihadist terrorists.
03 April 2014, 21:39
30
wow, filthy arabs? and you're not an arab? filthy persian christian wannabe.
03 April 2014, 21:15
04
let the sponsor of arms to the coalition divert some money to refugees (which are the result of the stupid arab mistake of arming and kidnapping a peacefull revolution )
04 April 2014, 00:06
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"huge numbers of refugees that were forced to flee their houses, escaping the criminality of (Syrian President Bashar) Assad.”
And Hezbollah goons, Southern, FT, Mowaten n co are saying they are fleeing takfiris ...
You are responsible for the situation through your complicity with this assassin and criminal Regime !
04 April 2014, 06:46
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SNC, you started a futile war, displacing all those innocent people
why don't you ask your masters at Turkey, SA and Qatar to take care of them
04 April 2014, 12:09
03
First the terrorists ask at the Arab league meeting for more sophisticated weapons to continue the killing of Syrian, and now they want Lebanon to protect those fleeing their atrocities. We should close the border and start sending Syrians back home or that they locate to safe areas inside Syria. Lebanon cannot bare more refugees and most areas in Syria are safe. We also need to question why majority of refugees are women with their children unaccompanied by their men, where are their men, for sure not with SAF, but rather with nusra, al qaida and other terrorist groups inside Syria. Those are not welcome due to they are not refugees.
04 April 2014, 16:17
01
And I strongly urge to the Syrian opposition, plus the regime it is fighting, to take this as an early warning, the people of Lebanon are beginning to show signs of exasperation over the continuous flow of their refugees into Lebanon. People are now getting seriously nervous and extremely apprehensive about them Syrians taking our jobs and our businesses. Let them refugees return back to their own country because the fuse is getting shorter. So ya dear Syrians, be you in the so-called opposition, or the Regime, since each one of you now controls sizable swaths of land in Syria, take those that belong to your flocks respectively and provide for them. We Lebanese now have had more than enough with you people.
