Syrians in makeshift displacement camp face ‘impossible choice’
A joint United Nations-Syrian Arab Red Crescent mission has arrived at the Rukban camp, near the Jordanian border, where more than 10,000 people are living in dire conditions, to ask them if they want to go back to the government-held area of Homs province.
Abu Muhammad had already made his decision. He could no longer bear living in the desolate Rukban displacement camp in eastern Syria.
When he entered a tent set up this week by UN and the government-affiliated Syrian Arab Red Crescent personnel on a rare visit to Rukban, he already knew how he would answer when a Red Crescent worker asked him whether he would like to stay in the camp or leave aboard an upcoming UN-assisted convoy.
