Syria

Syria: Nearly four million of Syria's 22 million people have been driven from their homes by the civil war. Of the displaced, two million have sought cover in camps and makeshift shelters across Syria, one million have registered as refugees in neighbouring Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Egypt, and several hundred thousand more fled the country but haven't signed up with the U.N. refugee agency. , according to Times Colonist. "The refugee numbers swelled because the world community is sitting idly, watching the tyrant Assad killing innocent people," said Mohammed Ammari, a 32-year-old refugee in the Zaatari camp straddling Jordan's border with Syria. "Shame, shame, shame. The world should be ashamed." BEIRUT - Syria's accelerating humanitarian crisis hit a grim milestone Wednesday: The number of UN-registered refugees topped 1 million half of them children described by an aid worker as a "human river" of thousands spilling out of the war-ravaged country every day. The West has refrained from military intervention in the two-year-old battle to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad, a conflict that has claimed more than 70,000 lives, and many Syrians hold the international community responsible for their misery. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.