Refugees of the Syrian Civil War

The problem began in April 2011, when the Syrian government used lethal force to crackdown on anti-government protests

More than 2 1/2 years of violence has ravaged Syria. About 40 percent of its people have been displaced, including millions who have fled the country. These refugees - their lives threatened, their livelihoods gone, their homes destroyed - must start anew in a foreign land until it is safe for them to return. But that homecoming is far from certain.

 

The flow of refugees intensified with the military siege of Talkalakh in May  2011and the militarysiege of Jisr al-Shyghour in Idlib Province in June 2011.As a result of these military actions, thousands of Syrian citizens fled across the border to Lebanon and Turkey.

In early 2012, the number of Syrian refugees swelled to some 20,000 UNHCR registered refugees in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan

Jordan has agreed to create camps to house the swelling numbers of refugees and began construction of a 30,000 square meter refugee camp in March 2012.

Turkey has accommodated most of its Syrian refugees in tent cities in Hatay province, which have been constructed since summer 2011

In August 2012, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported that the number of registered Syrian refugees had reached over 200,000, exceeding the UNHCR estimate of 185,000 for the entire year.

Also according to the United Nations, 6 million people inside Syria needed help and about 4 million Syrians were internally displaced  because of the Syrian civil war


According to UNHCR data, the total number of Syrian refugees reached more than 408,000 registered in December 2012, mostly residing in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq (including Iraqi Kurdistan)

As of 13 February 2013, more than 182,938 Syrian refugees are in Lebanon.As the number of Syrian refugees increases,many fear the country’s sectarian based political system is being undermined

 

UN says Syrian Refugees Number One Million 

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees said -

• Half of the refugees were children, most under the age of 11

• largest numbers of refugees were seeking shelter in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt.

• those who have fled conflict now live in difficult conditions, with poor sanitation and insufficient resources to cope with

• more than 400,000 have became refugees since 1 January 2013

• Turkey, providing a temporary home for some 184,000 refugees, has spent more than $600m (459m euros; £396m) setting up 17 refugee camps, and was building new ones to meet the increasing need

• Some 110,000 of those who have sought shelter in Jordan are living in the desert camp of Zaatari, near its northern border with Syria

Refugee Numbers

 

• Jordan - 324,543
• Lebanon - 329,823
• Turkey - 185,205
• Iraq - 105,326
• Egypt - 43,665
• North Africa - 8,262

A refugee camp is seen in the Syrian territory near the Turkish border town of Cilvegozu. The civil war in Syria has forced over 2 million people out of the country and over 4 million others are displaced within its borders, making Syrians the nation with the largest number of people torn from their homes, U.N. officials said.