Refugee

The Interviews

S o c i a l S u p p l e m e n t

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Families fleeing war must be prioritised over economic migrants to get a grip on this crisis. At no time in recent history has there been a greater need for leadership to deal with the consequences and causes of the global refugee crisis. Nothing brings home this truth more than the sight of columns of refugees marching across European borders, from countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. The Syria confict has created a wave of human suffering that has rolled out across the region and now has reached the shores of Europe. Syrians are fleeing barrel bombs, chemical weapons, rape and massacres. Their country has become a killing field.

A n g e l i n a J o l i e a n d A r m i n k a H e l i c

“No one risks the lives of their children in this way except out of utter desperation.”

3 Million have fled Syria to immediate neighbours.6.5 Million are internally displaced within Syria.

U n i t e d N a t i o n s H i g h C o m m i s s i o n e r f o r R e f u g e e s

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“My brother told me he saw death with his own eyes. He didn’t want to leave his young children behind. This war forced him to do it”

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“Refugees and displacement are likely to become a defining issue of the twenty-first century”.

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D i r e c t o r o f t h e R e f u g e e S t u d i e s C e n t r e a t t h e U n i v e r s i t y o f O x f o r d

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“It is very difficult for a woman, my father is dead, my mother is dead, my husband is dead. I don’t have anyone to support me.

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“You could die any minute, any second. Some babies were crying all of the way.”

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“Our intelligence shows the Assad regime and its forces preparing to use chemical weapons, launching rockets in the highly populated suburbs of Damascus, and acknowledging that a chemical weapons attack took place. And all of this corroborates what the world can plainly see – hospitals overflowing with victims; terrible images of the dead. All told, well over 1000 people were murdered. Several hundred of them were children – young girls and boys gassed to death by their own government.”

P r e s i d e n t o f t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s o f A m e r i c a

“We choose to work for the world as it should be, as our children deserve it to be.”

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