SOHR: More Than 100 Slayings in Syria Camp Since January 2021, UN Says
More than 100 people, including many women, have been murdered in a Syrian camp in just 18 months, the United Nations said Tuesday, demanding countries repatriate their citizens.
The Al-Hol camp is increasingly unsafe, and the child detainees are being condemned to a life with no future, said Imran Riza, U.N. resident coordinator for Syria.
Al-Hol, in the Kurdish-controlled northeast, was meant to be a temporary detention facility.
However, it still holds about 56,000 people, mostly Syrians and Iraqis, some of whom maintain links with the Islamic State jihadist group, which seized swaths of Iraq and Syria in 2014.
The rest are citizens of other countries, including children and other relatives of IS fighters.
Some 94% of the detainees are women and children, Riza, who has visited Al-Hol a handful of times, told reporters in Geneva.
“It’s a very harsh place, and it’s become an increasingly unsafe place,” he said.
There have been “around 106 murders since January last year in the camp,” and “many” of the victims were women, he added. “There’s a great deal of gender-based violence. … There’s a lot of no-go areas.”
Source: VOA