Who is fleeing syria

I used to wake up crying and scared. Some of the discs of my back are also damaged. The punishments for those who fall under government suspicion are brutal. Amnesty International documented 14 cases of sexual violence committed by security forces, including seven cases of rape, committed against five women, a teenage boy and a five-year-old girl.

Sexual violence took place at border crossings or in detention centres, during questioning. Testimonies are consistent with well-documented patterns of sexual violence and rape committed against civilians and detainees during the conflict by pro-government forces.

The officer subsequently raped Noor and her five-year old daughter in a small room used for interrogation at the border crossing. Security forces arrested them immediately at the border crossing and accused Yasmin of spying for a foreign country. Yasmin and her children were transferred to an intelligence detention centre, where they were detained for 29 hours.

Intelligence officers raped Yasmin, and took her son to another room where they raped him with an object. If you get out of Syria again and come back again, we will welcome you in a bigger way. We are trying to humiliate you and your son. They grabbed my arm. I screamed. The people on the sidewalks did nothing.

They did nothing. I want to leave this place. Can you help me? Where can I go? In other Turkish cities teeming with refugees, anti-Syrian protests have erupted. The spark in one case was the knifing of a Turk by a Syrian neighbor. The women sat cross-legged in a barren room decorated with a dandelion in a Coke bottle. They rarely left the room.

A fourth relative had not been propositioned—their senile grandmother. The old woman sat blinking, lost in dreams. She was hard to watch. She did not understand what she had lost. She had been born in Aleppo when Syria was a French mandate. Her granddaughters were hoping for asylum in France. In the charred ruins of his ancient city under the Oylum mound, Engin has discovered two bodies. We know next to nothing about them except perhaps the pathos of their social status. Their skeletons lay curled inside the kitchen of a grand mud-brick palace.

Jason Ur, an archaeologist at Harvard, studies the changing settlement patterns in ancient Assyria. Bas-relief carvings from Mesopotamia depict Iron Age armies prodding entire populations before them. In these ancient scenes the civilians are captive, harnessed. They wear chains. In a forthcoming paper, Ur and his colleague James Osborne suggest that settlements began to appear in eastern Syria between and B. This is a story that would be familiar to the Sioux, to the Apache.

They arose with the city-state. I gouged out the eyes of many troops. I made one pile of the living [and] one of heads. I hung their heads on trees around the city. Anatolia—the sprawling Asian peninsula of eastern Turkey. A continental crossroads. The eternal frontier of empires. A palimpsest of forced migrations. I walked its chalky roads past the broken foundations of Assyrian cities. I saw pediments of Greek columns swallowed in weedy gardens.

I passed derelict Armenian churches turned to mosques. I trod on highways of stone buffed by endless processions of Roman feet. In antique Harran, an ancient center of learning under the Romans, Byzantines, and Arabs just a dozen miles from the Syrian border, thousands of Muslim scholars once experimented with physics and engineering.

A minaret stood there on an empty plain—all that remains of the city that was leveled by the Mongols. And I passed the white tents of the Syrians. They were everywhere. Their doleful presence on the antique landscape seemed a sign of tectonic change, some unfathomable portent. Like the Palestinian diaspora. Skip to main content. Who we are Our leadership Careers Research and resources Blog. The facts: What you need to know about the Syria crisis. The Syrian conflict has created one of the worst humanitarian crises of our time.

When did the crisis in Syria start? How long has the crisis been going on? How has the war affected Syrians? What are the challenges for organizations like Mercy Corps? What can we do to help the people of Syria? How many Syrian refugees are there? Where are Syrians fleeing to? Do all refugees live in camps? What conditions are Syrian refugees facing outside camps? How many Syrian refugees are children? The past ten years represent as deadly and devastating a decade as any one country has experienced in recent memory, and can be defined by a collection of key moments and milestones: March Anti-government demonstrations begin as part of the Arab Spring.

July The conflict is declared a civil war as violence becomes widespread. July Zaatari Refugee Camp is opened in Jordan and hosts , refugees in its first year. March The number of registered Syrian refugees reaches 1 million. July The U. Security Council adopts a resolution authorizing the delivery of cross-border aid into Syria. September Conflict intensifies as outside parties become involved. A large number of Syrian refugees arrive in Europe, and Mercy Corps expands its response.

July The number of registered Syrian refugees surpasses 5 million. December Renewed airstrikes and bombings begin in Northwest Syria and force , people to flee over the span of three months — the largest displacement since the beginning of the conflict.

July The cross-border resolution is further curtailed, resulting in the closure of one of two remaining official border crossings used to deliver humanitarian aid. Stay connected to our work around the world. We will not share your data and you can unsubscribe at any time. Sign up for our emails.

Read our NGO joint statement on the impacts of limited access What can we do to help the people of Syria? Research by Mamdouh Akbiek, Eloise Dicker. Illustrations by Gerry Fletcher. We would like to know what you would take with you if you were forced to flee your country.

These may be used in a follow-up report. See what Syrian migrants who made the journey took with them. Real stories from people who risked the journey from Syria. A Syrian refugee tells how he nearly drowned in a lorry of melted chocolate as he tried to enter the UK. Another Syrian, "Mohammed", tells how he walked from Turkey to Italy. The story of how three Syrian asylum seekers reached Italy in a lorry's reserve fuel tank.