The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Worsening conditions and psychological stress | 50-year-old man commits suicide east of Idlib city

Displaced people in north-western Syria face several crises in the camps and in their areas of displacement, including poor living conditions, daily problems related to high prices, lack of income, employment and many more.

These problems are exacerbated in the absence of a solution for these people and the long period of displacement, which leads to suppression that causes psychological shock and then people losing control over emotions, causing dangerous behaviours for their safety and for those around them.

The displaced areas of Idlib have witnessed suicides due to psychological pressures, as a 50-year-old man in the town of Binish committed suicide today, due to poor living conditions and his inability to provide food for his children.

On July 22, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the suicide of a displaced man from southern Idlib countryside from Kafruma, for the same reasons.

SOHR sources reported earlier that the Syrian regime acknowledged 51 registered deaths by suicide in Syria since the beginning of 2020, as living conditions of the Syrian people have been getting worse in regime-held areas,

The total number of suicides included 13 deaths of children under the age of eighteen as well as eight women, with Aleppo in the first place in terms of the number of deaths by suicide. The reasons behind these suicides are confined to poverty and the inhumane situations which the Syrian citizen suffers from.