Syrian Refugees in Jordan Urge Britain to 'Get Rid of' Assad
Syrian refugees in Jordan urged British Foreign Secretary William Hague on Tuesday to "get rid of" Syrian President Bashar Assad, as the official visited this Jordanian border town.
"We do not want food or water, we do not want money. We just want you to get rid of Bashar," some of them chanted as Hague and Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh toured Ramtha's Bashabsheh housing complex, a military-guarded compound that houses around 1,000 Syrian refugees.
Hague, the most senior British official to visit the refugees in Jordan, described the unrest in Syria as "horrible."
"It is horrible to hear the accounts of what is happening (in Syria) from people here, many of them coming from close by over the borders," Hague said. "Tanks, bombardment from the air, every kind of heavy weaponry (are being used) against the civilian population."
Hague and Judeh spoke to some wounded Syrians and their children at a playground before visiting U.N. offices to examine procedures to register refugees.
Later in Amman, Hague and Judeh will discuss the unrest in Syria before holding a joint a news conference.
Jordan is hosting more than 140,000 Syrians and is building several refugee camps for them.
Rights monitors estimate that more than 17,000 people have been killed since the anti-regime uprising in Syria broke out in March 20011.
Source: Agence France Presse
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