EA WorldView: One million Syrian children are now registered as refugees, the United Nations said Friday.
UN latest figures show that of the one million Syrian refugees under the age of 18, around 740,000 are under 11.
Children now make up half of all refugees from the Syrian conflict. Syrians have sought refuge in neighboring Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Lebanon as well as in Egypt. Others have fled to Europe and North Africa.
UNHCR High Commissioner António Guterres expressed the situation in stark terms: “What is at stake is nothing less than the survival and wellbeing of a generation of innocents. The youth of Syria are losing their homes, their family members and their futures. Even after they have crossed a border to safety, they are traumatized, depressed and in need of a reason for hope.”
If this is true, then the West must be proud of their achievement. That will teach Assad a lesson. But don’t you even think for one minute that I’m going to support those children. Hell, I don’t even support my own, citizens that is.