Press Release: A Generation Of Syrian Children Is Lost In A War That Destroyed Millions Of Lives From Them!
A Generation of Syrian Children is Lost in a War that Destroyed Millions of Lives from Them!
(Translated)
The war in Syria continues, claiming more martyrs and wounded … and the number of refugees is increasing. The number of Syrian refugees registered was only two million people less than a year ago, and now it has exceeded three million, this is without counting the displaced within the country, where their number has reached more than 6.5 million people, which means that about 50% of Syrians have been forced to leave their homes, according to the UN High Commissioner.
The biggest victims of these refugees are women and children in particular due to the impact of the long war. There are 5.5 million Syrian children living in Syria or as refugees in neighboring countries. There are more than 1.2 million children now living as refugees in host countries, most are without education with approximately 3 million children who do not attend school regularly. A fifth of the schools in Syria are destroyed, damaged or used for military purposes.
And in the neighbouring countries, employment of refugee children has increased, especially in Jordan and Lebanon under poor conditions, where they work more than 12 hours a day and often under miserable conditions which are dangerously exploitative without providing them with adequate safety equipment, which affects the children by adding to their pain as they are still struggling to cope with the memories of the war and asylum. Also, most of the refugee children have left school to work to support their families due to the absence of men.
A study prepared by CARE organization in Jordan last April revealed that only 52 percent of Syrians boys go to school now (and 62 percent of girls), while in Lebanon the number is less than that with a rate of only 30 percent of Syrian refugee children going to school. We can imagine the size of the pressure and the trauma suffered by an entire generation of children and adolescents under these miserable conditions and the resulting incorrect behaviour, especially violence because they feel that they have nothing to lose!
The Syrian children instead of being greeted as a father receives his son in terms of care, and rather than being treated as brothers with tenderness, kindness and attention they are left in the streets, their childhood is ravaged by the cruelty of living, their lives are destroyed as a result of missing out on education.
The lack of a genuine desire of the regimes to help the people of Syria and the justifications used for not doing their duty towards refugees, such as the argument of the significant increase in the number of refugees, and the argument of the regimes’ modest means and others, are arguments and justifications which are open and exposed. If they wanted to help truly they would have overcome the obstacles they confront, and at least have begun to take the necessary measures to overcome those obstacles. If they wanted to, they would have prepared for it.
The suggestions raised by international organizations and the regimes in Muslim countries to address the problems of the Syrians, are patch work unrealistic solutions, and do not address the suffering of the people of Syria and will not improve their conditions for the better.
The real problem lies in their displacement from their land as a result of the presence of the oppressive tyrant, and the solution is to overthrow him so that the people of Syria can return to their country, their homes and their schools under a decent and just living, and in the absence of the ruling tyrant and the grip of the corrupt regime that controlled the resources of the country. And this can only be achieved by the movement of the people of power and influence who will break the shackles of the rulers, who are the guards of the Sykes-Picot borders and by announcing the Khilafah upon the method of the Prophethood, which will give support to the people of Syria who will retaliate against the enemy, a guided Khilafah upon the method of the Prophethood concerned with the dignity of the Muslim and protection of his blood, honor and belief concerned with good care, not killing and tax collection.
﴿أَفَحُكْمَ الْجَاهِلِيَّةِ يَبْغُونَ وَمَنْ أَحْسَنُ مِنَ اللّهِ حُكْمًا لِّقَوْمٍ يُوقِنُونَ﴾
“Then is it the judgment of [the time of] ignorance they desire? But who is better than Allah in judgment for a people who are certain [in faith]” [TMQ Al-Ma’ida: 50]
Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
Women’s Section