Mystery surrounds the assassination of two people in a camp of displaced people near the Syrian – Jordanian border
The causes and circumstances of the killing of 2 people, one from the forces of al-Shahid Ahmad al-Abdu who reject the displacement agreement from al-Rokban camp to the Syrian north, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored finding the 2 bodies thrown at the outskirts of the camp, and the causes and circumstances of their death remain unknown until now, this incident comes in the shadow of the continuation of tragic conditions of the displaced people in the camp, in conjunction with the bad weather conditions in the area, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 11th of November 2018 that death chases the Syrian citizens from the Turkish border which is adjacent to the Syrian North part of which is also controlled by Turkey, to the southern border with Jordan, the story of killing the Syrians by the border guards has no end, as the violations by them are continuing, and the killing continues at a pace that is varying from time to time, where the Syrian Observatory monitored the death of an old woman, after she was hit with a gunshot while she was near the place of water in al-Rokban camp, and local sources confirmed to the SOHR that the Jordanian border guards shot the woman today, Sunday the 11th of November 2018, while she was in the camp, where the locals have monitored the sound of gunfire since the midnight of Saturday – Sunday, where hundreds of gunshots have been fired since evening until today’s noon, by the Jordanian border guards, towards the Desert and the camp, where one of the bullets killed the woman.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored a great resentment by the camps’ residents against the ongoing violations and the siege imposed over them, as well as the international and regional attempts to remove the camp whose inhabitants refuse to return to their areas which are under the control of the regime forces, due to the breaches that are still being committed by the regime forces even against those who have their situation settled, where the Syrian Observatory published on the 8th of November 2018, that it obtained information from reliable sources who confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that most of the residents of al-Rokban camp refuse to return to their areas, even with the Russian guarantees provided to them, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory: the residents of al-Rokban camp have rejected the Jordanian – Russian consensus to return more than 60000 residents of al-Rokban camp to the areas from which they come; which are controlled by the regime forces, and although the Russians provided guarantees for the return, the displaced people in the camp rejected it completely, reliable sources told the Syrian Observatory that the reason behind this rejection was the arrest of about 50 young men who are from towns and cities in the eastern countryside of Homs, despite “settling their situation and reconciling with the regime”, where the youths have “settled their situation” in groups called “Hesn al-Watan” (Fort of the Motherland of the regime forces, but the military intelligence interrogated and investigated them first, then arrested them despite the fact that they service in a faction of the regime forces, which raised the discontent of people and pushed them to refuse the return and reject the Russian guarantees.
Days ago the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information from reliable sources that a young displaced man in al-Rokban camp near the Syrian – Jordanian border, died after the deterioration of his health greatly after he had a surgery, also medical sources confirmed that the deterioration was the result of having no aid and the absence sterilization materials in the camp, which caused the wounds to fester and worsen his health until he died today, Monday, the 5th of November 2018, on the second day of distribution of the humanitarian aid to the internally displaced people in the camp, raising to 6, the number of people who were killed in the camp since early October 2018, including 2 children and 2 citizens, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the assistance is still being distributed in the camp by the teams working on delivering the aid to residents of the camp, where the delivery of this aid to the entire sections inside the camp is expected to end, where there are no obstructions in the delivery as well as a state of satisfaction among the citizens for the entry of the aid, which has been stopped since the beginning of this year and the camp was besieged entirely weeks ago, and the sources confirmed that the United Nations team that arrived in the area under Russian protection; was briefed on the humanitarian, living, and health conditions of the camp’s residents.