Misery Of Syrians Driven From Home
Updated: 7:13am UK, Saturday 07 September 2013
By Stuart Ramsay, Chief Correspondent
I have passed through the border area between Turkey and Syria dozens of times in the last year or so, but I have never seen a vehicle exodus like the one taking place now.
Hundreds of cars stacked up at customs all laden with people and possessions. These are the people who have survived for two and a half years, who have used up all their savings to stay in their country but have concluded now that they have to leave.
Not one Syrian is untouched by this war anymore.
In camps along Syria's borders and inside neighbouring countries, millions are living in various levels of misery.
All the camps are miserable; some are bigger and better than others, some are like squatter camps. Refugees have given up hope and gone, the internally displaced will likely soon follow, if they can.
In the displaced peoples' camp near the Turkish city of Killis, but still just inside Syria, they are just about surviving.
There is little choice for entire families who have moved from village to village for years now, seeking sanctuary from aerial bombardments and shelling. They have tried to escape the war, but it always catches up.
Haj Nadeen is 50 and has 12 children, two wives, a sister and sister-in-law all living in a single tent in the camp.
"A barrel bomb exploded in front of my house and destroyed it," he told me over a cup of tea surrounded by the whole family.
"Assad wants to destroy us and wants to move us out of our houses. He will use gas and he will use barrel bombs. If the Americans attack there will be retaliation but they have to do it."
The continual air assaults on villages are what force most people to leave; usually after a family member is severely hurt.
In a tent, the wind whipping up a sandstorm inside, little Ali Shaobu, showed me raking scars on his leg and the patches on his bottom where Turkish doctors took flesh and skin to rebuild him.
He was buying bread when a jet struck shattering that leg. Doctors said they had never not amputated on such an extensive injury but were prepared to try to save it as he was so young.
After a series of operations it was successful. But he and his family cannot return home as the same jet destroyed their house. They have been in the tent for a year.
"We can't go home and we can't rebuild until this is over," his mother, Malar Al Hassan, told me.
"We can only trust in God."
A quarter of Syria's population is on the move. International donations are half that is needed to for the aid agencies to help them and of course the crisis is growing.
Currently the world's worst humanitarian crisis, the Syria problem has rumbled on with barely a single peace solution even remotely acceptable to the rebels or the government being tabled.
But that isn't actually the point here because this is about help for those who really need it. They aren't getting enough and they can't do anything to help themselves any more.
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