Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published September 4, 2012.
Violence in Syria forced an estimated 100,000 refugees across borders to Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq during the month of August. That’s the highest monthly total since the conflict began, according to the UN’s Refugee Agency, which released the tally today. The UN says there are more than 230,000 people in the region who have registered as refugees or are awaiting registration. But these refugees are still only a partial count as a larger migration crisis unfolds inside Syria. With fighting reaching the country’s two largest urban areas, Aleppo and Damascus, the number of people displaced internally has tripled over the summer. The Syrian Arab Red Crescent says more than 1.5 million civilians have left their homes, but have stayed inside the country. That’s about one in every 15 Syrians. FSRN’s Marine Olivesi met two displaced families inside Syria. She found out that in addition to lacking humanitarian aid, they also have little sense of safety.
