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Opinion
Unsustainable Refugee Situation in Syria and Jordan
The stream of refugees, caused by the Iraqi war, is being described as the biggest migration of people of modern time. Over four million people have been forced to flee to a life in uncertainty. Syria and Jordan have received around two million Iraqi refugees. Several hundreds and thousands of these two million belong to the extra targeted natives of Iraq, the Assyrians (also called Chaldeans and Syriacs). The Assyrians are seen, by Islamist groups, as allies to the US and the west because of their Christian heritage. In the earlier Christian Baghdad-district of Dora, there are nowadays no Assyrians at all. They have fled because of bombings, kidnappings, threats, and killings.
Unlike the Shiites, the Sunnis, and the Kurds, the Assyrians have no protective mechanisms of their own, such as militia, or support from powerful allies. The Assyrians instead are noticed for being the only Christians in an Islam dominated area. In suburbs of the capital cities of Amman and Damascus, these Christian refugees are gathered in ghettos, where poverty and misery has become a way of living. When the savings are over, there is for many of them, no other way out than prostitution. In the report “By God – Six Days in Amman”, journalist Nuri Kino tells about a woman he met in Amman. ”Another [woman] has several customers. In her family there is no one in the west who can send money to Amman. She sells her body in order to pay her rent, food, and electricity. Her family knows about it. Everybody except for the brother. Her brother, sister, and mother live with her. The brother thinks she works as a maid for a rich Jordan family. She has a pimp who takes care of the business for her, and who takes piece of the share.”
There are few people who can afford it, and few who have succeeded in getting to countries such as Sweden with the help of smugglers of humans – the majority is stuck in the refugee misery. As the situation of Iraq still is very bad, and is thought to be uncertain for a long time ahead, these refugees have no hope in returning to their home country. They are stuck in ghettos in suburbs such as Germana in Damascus, a situation which has deprived them of their human dignity.
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