Antonio Guterres

Antonio Guterres: If the conflict continues 3.5 million people Syrian refugees are expected by the end of the year, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said, according to 660 News. Almost 5,000 citizens a day on average are flowing out of Syria a country of some 23 million people many of them with little more than the clothes they are wearing, Guterres said. The number of refugees has surged by 1.8 million in just 12 months up from almost 231,000 a year ago and GENEVA The civil war in Syria has forced over 2 million people out of the country and over 4 million others are displaced within its borders, making Syrians the nation with the largest number of people torn from their homes right now, U.N. officials said Tuesday. At this particular moment its the highest number of displaced people anywhere in the world, he told reporters in Geneva. Syria has become the great tragedy of this century a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.