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Feature: Syrian refugees in Lebanon outcry over injustice

Xinhua, June 20, 2015 Adjust font size:

When the Syrian refugee Aboul Oueidati in Lebanon returns from his daily endeavor to support his family, he spends whatever is left of his time to discuss with his fellows the the developments of crisis in their country.

Ahmad Aboul Oueidati, 60 years old, was displaced from the devastated city of Idlib.

Lamenting the situation that does not appear to be "easing any soon," he told Xinhua "our country that once was safe, fancy and civilized is ruined. The sight of dead people in the streets has become familiar."

Aboul Oueidati believes that the world and the Arab oil countries "conspired against Syria, and the situation gets complicated by the day and we do not see any solution in the looming."

As for displaced from the Damascus region to the Rachaya al-Wadi in the Bekaa valley, Salwa Aboul Hoda said that they found plenty of time to follow up the developments of the situation in their country," she told Xinhua.

She explained "radios and small TV units are available in most of our tents and the technicians who are specialized in installing the satellite receivers are many, so this made it easy for us to follow up the news and the war in our country by the hour."

Aboul Hoda who once was a teacher in Syria said that "Syria is going through very rough times and the clashes are despicable. We ask the international community who turned deaf ear to the rightful demands of the Syrians, why is it still feeding up the crisis?"

She asked "everybody is talking about a peaceful solution to the crisis that lasted too long, but on the field nothing is being done except fuelling this war."

For Abou Ahmad Samer al-Oueissi, a 60-year old displaced from Aleppo to the al-Marj town in the West Bekaa, who was preparing food on a wooden stove for his family, "we are living is distress and unaware of the future of our country," he told Xinhua.

Media reported about the willing of some European countries to receive a number of Syrian refugees, and this created a kind of hope for Ahmad Aboul Fakhour, a 55-year old displaced from the devastated city of Homs.

He told Xinhua "we thought that living in a decent country would secure our future but we found that it is only rumor as no country accepted even listening to our demand.

In the northern port city of Tripoli, where about 180,000 Syrians are living in dire conditions, most of the displaced believe that the world powers are not serious about finding a solution to the crisis in their home country.

22-year old Ousama al-Rukka from Homs, who is continuing his political sciences studies in the Lebanese University in Tripoli, told Xinhua that "since the beginning of the crisis we heard about efforts by the world powers to solve the crisis, but after four years now we discovered that the United States and the others have given us empty promises."

Tarek al-Husseini from Idlib told Xinhua that his brother left for Turkey two years ago "with the hope of immigrating to Germany. But he is still in Istanbul and has even been arrested a couple of times because he did not carry legal papers for his stay, and has been treated in a humiliating manner." Endit