With the absence of care by those in charge of Idlib camps, a Russian rifle ends the life of a rich man displaced by the Russian bombardment and the absence of organizations ends a girl’s life in her first months
The suffering of the Syrians fleeing horrors of war continues, as the conflict continues to escalate, where the displaced people from the eastern province of Hama are suffering from military invasions of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them which took place in late 2017, who are currently living tragic situations in several camps in the southern and northern countryside of Idlib Province, as the winter enters a with its extreme cold this year, the suffering is manifested in several ways, like when the tents which were built in primitive means are taken by floods, the severe shortage of foodstuffs, the lack of access to clean water, drinking water, electricity, and the miserable situation of health and education, and many other urgent needs of the inhabitants of these camps.
A large proportion of these camps are located in the southern countryside of Idlib Province, specifically in Maarrat al-Nu’man town, where there are 13 random camps inhabited by thousands of displaced people of the eastern countryside of Hama Province, also there are a lot of these camps north of Idlib Province, especially near Qah town, and all these camps suffer similar tragic conditions in terms of full marginalization, and the arrival of aid in small quantities and sporadically, which are not enough, and recently, the situation reached limits the residents of these camps are unable to bear.
As a result of these conditions and the conditions of residents of these camps, who came out of their homes without taking anything to help them in their lives, and not being able to support their families, not to mention the psychological situation suffered by residents of the stress they face from all directions and at all levels; the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored a case of suicide of a man, he in his forties in al-Na’ourah camp in the countryside of Maarrat al-Nu’man city south of Idlib Province, where his financial situation was critical in its lowest possible point, in addition to his inability to support his family members and provide them with the lowest standards of life, where reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the man is “Musa Ali al-Aliawi,” he was born in al-Jaddu’ieyyat in the eastern countryside of Hama Province on 1975, and he is a displaced person from al-Na’ourah city in the countryside of Maarrat al-Nu’man city south of Idlib, and he finally reached the point of committing suicide. He shot himself because of his difficult living conditions.
In a testimony of one of his relative, he told the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that Musa Ali al-Aliawi is married and he has 8 children, was known before displacing from his village, al-Jaddu’ieyyat, the he his financial situation was good, where he had hundreds of sheep and he had agricultural lands, but like other displaced people; he was forced to leave everything behind and escape from the heavy bombardment that the area suffered late last year by the Russian warplanes and regime’s warplanes, in addition to the advance of the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them and their control of the entire area, he was displaced to al-Na’ourah camp near Maarrat al-Nu’man south of Idlib, where this camp along with 12 other camps belong to the Department of Displacement of the Syrian Rescue Government, which has been suffering since the beginning from a very tragic and difficult situation, which get even worse in the winter with the start of floods and their destruction of tents and drowning them in heavy rain water, as well as the significant shortage in food, medical supplies, and the education part, and the difficulty of moving between the tents because of the mud ground of the camps and the lack of roads connecting the camps to the outside, and a lot of difficulties, to which the department of displaced people’s affairs did not care and remained silent until this moment, while it is watching the situation becoming more difficult day after day, without any real move to improve the living situation, where Musa -who has a large family- could not control himself after all this hardship and difficult life in this camp, and was no longer able to support his family and meet the many needs of his children of clothing and food, so, in his last days he entered in a difficult psychological situation, he was always sitting alone thinking about his conditions and the conditions of his fellow refugees, finally, he decided to commit suicide. This incident took place on the morning of the 4th of December 2018, when he took advantage of the absence of everyone in the tent, where his wife went to buy bread, and his kids went to an educational tent where they are taught by a volunteer teacher in the camp, Musa took out his own Kalashnikov (Russian rifle) and shot himself in the area under the lower palate, his father -who lives in a neighboring tent- heard the shooting and rushed to the tent quickly, to find Musa lying on the ground bleeding, and his skull exploded.
The same sources described the incident as “really painful and tragic”, his parents buried him in a cemetery near the camp and his family was destined to live with their father’s brother, the strange thing is that this incident did not attract the attention of the camp’s officials, and did not receive the attention of the charitable organization neither, where the family has not received any assistance from any party yet, which aroused resentment of the displaced people and Heard the incident.
With the absence of care by those in charge of Idlib camps, a Russian rifle ends the life of a rich man displaced by the Russian bombardment and the absence of organizations ends a girl’s life in her first months
The suffering of the Syrians fleeing horrors of war continues, as the conflict continues to escalate, where the displaced people from the eastern province of Hama are suffering from military invasions of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them which took place in late 2017, who are currently living tragic situations in several camps in the southern and northern countryside of Idlib Province, as the winter enters a with its extreme cold this year, the suffering is manifested in several ways, like when the tents which were built in primitive means are taken by floods, the severe shortage of foodstuffs, the lack of access to clean water, drinking water, electricity, and the miserable situation of health and education, and many other urgent needs of the inhabitants of these camps.
A large proportion of these camps are located in the southern countryside of Idlib Province, specifically in Maarrat al-Nu’man town, where there are 13 random camps inhabited by thousands of displaced people of the eastern countryside of Hama Province, also there are a lot of these camps north of Idlib Province, especially near Qah town, and all these camps suffer similar tragic conditions in terms of full marginalization, and the arrival of aid in small quantities and sporadically, which are not enough, and recently, the situation reached limits the residents of these camps are unable to bear.
As a result of these conditions and the conditions of residents of these camps, who came out of their homes without taking anything to help them in their lives, and not being able to support their families, not to mention the psychological situation suffered by residents of the stress they face from all directions and at all levels; the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored a case of suicide of a man, he in his forties in al-Na’ourah camp in the countryside of Maarrat al-Nu’man city south of Idlib Province, where his financial situation was critical in its lowest possible point, in addition to his inability to support his family members and provide them with the lowest standards of life, where reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the man is “Musa Ali al-Aliawi,” he was born in al-Jaddu’ieyyat in the eastern countryside of Hama Province on 1975, and he is a displaced person from al-Na’ourah city in the countryside of Maarrat al-Nu’man city south of Idlib, and he finally reached the point of committing suicide. He shot himself because of his difficult living conditions.
In a testimony of one of his relative, he told the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that Musa Ali al-Aliawi is married and he has 8 children, was known before displacing from his village, al-Jaddu’ieyyat, the he his financial situation was good, where he had hundreds of sheep and he had agricultural lands, but like other displaced people; he was forced to leave everything behind and escape from the heavy bombardment that the area suffered late last year by the Russian warplanes and regime’s warplanes, in addition to the advance of the regime forces and the militiamen loyal to them and their control of the entire area, he was displaced to al-Na’ourah camp near Maarrat al-Nu’man south of Idlib, where this camp along with 12 other camps belong to the Department of Displacement of the Syrian Rescue Government, which has been suffering since the beginning from a very tragic and difficult situation, which get even worse in the winter with the start of floods and their destruction of tents and drowning them in heavy rain water, as well as the significant shortage in food, medical supplies, and the education part, and the difficulty of moving between the tents because of the mud ground of the camps and the lack of roads connecting the camps to the outside, and a lot of difficulties, to which the department of displaced people’s affairs did not care and remained silent until this moment, while it is watching the situation becoming more difficult day after day, without any real move to improve the living situation, where Musa -who has a large family- could not control himself after all this hardship and difficult life in this camp, and was no longer able to support his family and meet the many needs of his children of clothing and food, so, in his last days he entered in a difficult psychological situation, he was always sitting alone thinking about his conditions and the conditions of his fellow refugees, finally, he decided to commit suicide. This incident took place on the morning of the 4th of December 2018, when he took advantage of the absence of everyone in the tent, where his wife went to buy bread, and his kids went to an educational tent where they are taught by a volunteer teacher in the camp, Musa took out his own Kalashnikov (Russian rifle) and shot himself in the area under the lower palate,
His father -who lives in a neighboring tent- heard the shooting and rushed to the tent quickly, to find Musa lying on the ground bleeding, and his skull exploded.
The same sources described the incident as “really painful and tragic”, his parents buried him in a cemetery near the camp and his family was destined to live with their father’s brother, the strange thing is that this incident did not attract the attention of the camp’s officials, and did not receive the attention of the charitable organization neither, where the family has not received any assistance from any party yet, which aroused resentment of the displaced people and Heard the incident.
In the same context, under the almost inhuman conditions in these camps, the death of a baby girl was documented in al-Nasr camp, which is located near Qah town north of Idlib Province, she died after a long suffering with malnutrition due to the depletion of her mother’s milk because of the difficult living conditions and them father’s inability to buy milk for her, due to his poor financial condition, the 7-month-old girl, Mariam Yassin al-Hussein, her father lives in al-Nasr camp near Qah town north of Idlib Province; she suffered since birth due to the bad nutrition she had after the depletion of her mother’s milk, and her father was unable to buy her baby’s milk, so, she died after a long months of illness, she received some treatment within the poor health services in the camp.
In a testimony by a relative of the child, he told the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that Maryam was a child from a poor family, she was a sister for 7 others, her 41-years-old father lives in al-Nasr camp near Qah town north of Idlib Province, and he fled his village of al-Rabda at the eastern countryside of Hama Province with thousands of others late 2017. Maryam was born in the camp but after 2 months of her birth her mother suffered drought in her milk, and day after day the child’s condition began to deteriorate, as a result of the lack of food, so her father took her to a doctor in the border town of Atma, after the examination it turned out that she found that she was suffering from acute malnutrition and needed quick treatment and food, and he described her infant milk, which costs about 2000 Syrian pounds and lasts no more than 3 days, her father tried to contact many parties to donate milk so he can feed his daughter, but it didn’t work, and he was unable to buy it because he had no money due to the poverty he suffers along with many of the residents of the camp.
After 4 months the child entered a serious illness condition, so her father went to the hospital again and was immediately transferred to Turkey for treatment due to his danger’s condition, after arriving at a hospital in Turkey the child received some treatments and she was provided with nourishing serum for almost one month, but her situation stayed bad and she did not get better, and she died leaving behind her brothers and sisters without heating and foodstuffs. in a truly tragic situation, all this happened because of the disregard of the humanitarian organizations for these camps, and not taking into consideration the situation of those living there, who suffered enough from the war, and became homeless because of it, they left their houses to end up in camps that should be named the camps of death, camps that have no sign of a decent life.
These 2 stories were not the only ones in the displacement camps which have people from different areas of Syria, but when we go back, we find many similar stories with different details, but carry the same meaning and get us to the same conclusion, which is that the life in these camps has almost become impossible, all of this is taking place in front of the concerned authorities from the rescue and interim governments, and humanitarian organizations operating in the Syrian north, and the people confirmed for the Syrian Observatory that they must take responsibility of the people and help them to survive, and improve the level of living and service in these camps in general, where they have been forced to live in these camps, they have never chosen to do so, but the difficult conditions they have lived previously made them hostages of these lifeless camps, as these cases and other previous cases are warning of a humanitarian disaster for the residents of these camps, and show the tragic situation of the displaced people of the eastern countryside of Hama Province, who are living in displacement camps some of which follow the department of displaced people’s affairs of the Rescue Government, and these cases warn residents and those in charge of these camps of a humanitarian disaster in the coming period, if the matter is not taken care of and these camps are provided with the necessary assistance.
Through the Syrian Observatory, the people hold those who claim responsibility for the camps of the relief organizations and political bodies; the people hold them the full responsibility for the deterioration of situation to such a degree, and it is worth mentioning that the displaced people of the eastern countryside of Hama province were displaced from their villages and towns at the end of 2017, after the control of the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them of the entire eastern countryside, which caused a great wave of displacement, where thousands of displaced people spread in the displacement camps in Idlib Province, while some of them settled in at camps in the countryside of Maarrat al-Nu’man, and more than a year after their presence there, it is only getting worse and their humanitarian situation is deteriorating with no looking into their situation by the concerned authorities and humanitarian organizations operating in the Syrian north, which should lend a helping hand out to them and help them.