The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Second batch in 2022 | Several families leave Al-Rukban camp to regime-controlled areas

Reliable sources have told SOHR that three families from Homs province left Al-Rukban camp in the 55-kilometre zone near the Syria-Jordan- Iraq border triangle this morning, heading to regime-controlled areas in Homs under no guarantees protecting them from being arrested by regime security services.

 

On January 3, SOHR activists reported that two families from Al-Qariateen city in Homs countryside left Al-Rukban camp, heading to regime-controlled areas in Homs province.

 

It is worth noting that the phenomenon of leaving Al-Rukban camp has escalated recently due to the deteriorating living conditions in the camp, which suffers from difficult humanitarian conditions in light of humanitarian organisations’ indifference, high cost of living and lack of job opportunities in the camp, which has become a forgotten “big prison” in the Syrian desert, inhabited by 11,000 displaced Syrians family from all over Syria.

 

According to SOHR statistics, some 179 families of 780 persons left the camp in 2021. Here is a monthly distribution of the families that left the camp in 2021:

 

  • January: 17 families comprising 95 persons.

 

  • February: 15 families comprising 66 persons.

 

  • March: 17 families comprising 80 persons.

 

  • April: 15 families comprising 62 persons.

 

  • May: 14 families comprising 51 persons.

 

  • June: 17 families comprising 81 persons.

 

  • July: 13 families comprising 45 persons.

 

  • August: 14 families comprising 57 persons.

 

  • September: 15 families comprising 66 persons.

 

  • October: 13 families comprising 44 persons.

 

  • November: 10 families comprising 33 persons.

 

  • December: 19 families comprising 100 persons.