Russian and Syrian joint coordination headquarters report on plight of the Syrians illegally seized by the US-controlled armed gangs in the Rukban camp (source):
JOINT EMERGENCY STATEMENT
“On plight of the Syrians illegally seized by the US-controlled armed gangs in the Rukban camp”
March 7, 2019
For 1,771 days now – since the end of spring 2014 – as the Syrians, who were forced to leave their homes, fleeing the ISIS militants have been actually seized in a military blockade on the border of Jordan and Syria.
According to the adviser to Coordinator of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Rana Zakut, the humanitarian situation in the Rukban camp has reached a critical stage. The lack of the bare necessities and basic services, combined with serious security risks, force residents to seek to leave its territory as soon as possible. According to the UN, the number of people willing to leave the area is 95% of the total population of the camp, or about 40,000 people.
The total lack of medical care is a key factor in the development of the humanitarian crisis in the Rukban. Most of the refugees are among the most vulnerable categories of the population – mainly women, children under five, elderly and disabled people. Due to the most severe sanitary and epidemiological situation in the camp, many of them suffer from skin diseases, influenza, measles, tuberculosis, asthma, and diabetes. Moreover, cases of cholera and leprosy have been reported.
The cemetery located close to the camp is being replenished with new graves, including group ones. In November 2018, the World Health Organization, together with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), pointed out the extremely high mortality rate in the Rukban camp, where more than 100 people die every month.
UN convoys and one-time vaccinations cannot prevent further degradation of the humanitarian situation in Rukban. Only immediate evacuation from the camp can save people.
The Jordanian authorities, referring to security issues and difficult economic situation in the country, refuse to open the border for refugees to enter their territory; the only way to escape remains – the humanitarian corridor provided by the government of the Syrian Arab Republic.
Due to the lack of funds for transportation costs to move within the 55-kilometer al-Tanf zone and large sums extorted by US-controlled gangs from everyone who wants to leave the area are the main obstacles that do not give Syrians in Rukban to take the advantage of the opportunity provided by the Syrian leadership.
It is to be reminded that there are comfortable buses for the free transportation provided by the Syrian government for families of temporarily displaced persons in each locality chosen by the Rukban residents. The authorities of the Syrian Arab Republic have provided all the necessary guarantees to ensure the safe, voluntary, informed and dignified return of Syrian citizens.
Only actions of the US command in the al-Tanf zone that refuses to guarantee the safe exit of the Syrians from Rukban through the zone they control and ensure their right to free (without payment) access to the places of permanent residence hampers the most important humanitarian operation to rescue Syrian citizens.
After making sure that the United States is indifferent to the lives of tens of thousands of ordinary Syrians, whom they cynically sacrifice their own interests in the region, we once again appeal to the world community who regard themselves to the civilized world, and above all to the United Nations, to start to act, once and for all, to solve a problem that lasts for years and takes thousands of human lives, to be principled and show the so-called world hegemon to the inadmissibility of places like the Rukban camp.
We also turn to Jordan, as a country on the border with which this hotbed of terrorism, disease and poverty is located, a country that, along with Syria, is suffering the negative consequences of the gravest humanitarian crisis in the neighboring republic. We hope for the further participation of our Jordanian colleagues in humanitarian initiatives for repatriation of Syrian refugees and active participation in early elimination of the Rukban camp, which will contribute to the overall stabilization of the situation in the region, and is in the interests of Jordan.
The civilized world has no right to look at it without taking decisive measures to save people, first of all, elderly people, women and children!
Head of Russian Joint Coordination Committee on Repatriation of Syrian Refugees – Head of National Centre for State Defence Control of the Russian Federation
Mizintsev M.
Head of Syrian Joint Coordination Committee on Repatriation of Syrian Refugees – Local Administration Minister of the Syrian Arab Republic
Makhlouf H.
What else would you expect from America, they ave always done this sort of thing. At the end of WWII, they held German prisoners at gunpoint, and froze them to death. The world has never seen an empire as evil as the USA.
From what I know they also starved them to death (not only “froze” them) and expose them to illnesses without any cure. Germany lost more soldiers in US concentration camps right after the, war than in war itself. It is puzzling because it was USSR who lost 3 million Soviet POW’s in German concentration camps under similar treatment not US or UK Also USSR have lost 27 million yet they have helped Eastern Germany to develop So there was no direct Soviet revenge over the Germans (apart from famous “rapes”but UK&US did it also) unlike US who didn’t suffer any civilian casualties or any mistreatment of their soldiers yet they were very hard with surrendering Germans.
Good comment, but 3 million soviet pows lost in Germany, I can’t believe that without some sort of credible accounting. Otherwise I agree with what you say.
All is out there on internet if you really want to find it. It is even well known fact that Russians-Soviets were treated much worse than US & UK prisoners of war. Germans took huge number of Soviet prisoners in 1941 after their attack on USSR. I couldn’t find out about US crimes against German also. It takes effort for some things that are deliberately hidden.
USA is not an empire, it is a colony as also is the country you live in, that follow orders and direction not making policy. no matter that are the front and military arm of the ones who do make policy and give the directions.
You only have to look at Venezuela to see that the anglozionist exceptionalists have long since passed the point where they give a rats at$e about what Russia & Syria says, or anybopdy else for that matter … they overtly break international law and create destructive murderous chaos as they try to keep the exceptional empire afloat ….. unfortunately for them there are far too many ar$ehole rats in that sinking ship.
USA NATO is very arrogant and desperate and aggressive. their follow their own ideas.Their like useless meetings to frustrate and wasting valuable time of other.Look how Pentagon spokesman Trump disappointed Kim after he propose such good ideas.USA NATO come with agreement to weaken countries.If next Spokesman of USA comes he abolished agreements and attack.Saddam does after destroying king range missiles. Gaddafi died after destroying nuclear weapons.USA,France,Italy, Australia, Canada, Germany and Britain are seven head snakes of Revelation in bible.Agree today and break up tomorrow that how their fool Russia and wannabe nations
Russia must act.
Rukban Death Camp is really nothing else but a Gulag or a Concentration Camp under the auspices of US. Spread the word about this and you will have contributed to an actual real humanitarian cause.
Armed gangs, why the hell do they call them armed gangs, most of us know exactly who they are, they’re Isis and ex FSA fighters, that’s who they really are. There are about 50,000 people living in the Rukban camp now, 12 months ago that figure was only about 7,000, guess where all the other 43,000 came from. During the last 12 months the SAA has been slowly but surely eradicating Isis from this area, and back in June last year Trump ended US support for the FSA as well, that left them both in limbo with no home territory to call their own. Over the last 12 months, I dare anyone to contradict me and links me a report that tells us anyone at all living in this large desolate area, has been displaced from their homes by Isis or FSA activity, because they haven’t been. Further south in As Suwayda 150 km away Isis did displace some of the Druze population, but those displaced people didn’t move very far away, and they’ve already returned to their homes. I think most of the 43,000 refugees that have turned up over the last 12 months aren’t refugees at all, I think they’re all mostly just wolves in sheeps clothing. From the time the SAA started placing an ever tightening military vice around this area [ Al Tanf exclusion zone], the numbers at the camp started to swell as well, and then when the FSA got the sack by Trump, and support for them at the US camp ended, the numbers at the refugee camp just started to swell again. Now that might have been just a chance coincidence and seemingly unimportant, that’s if it wasn’t for the ever increasing reports of disturbing behaviour at the camp that accompanied that swell in numbers, that to me at least linked the two together. Refugee camps always have bad reports, violence, prostitution, drugs, standover tactics, extortion, but Rukban was getting a lot of notoriety for being even worse than most, and right on the extreme of debauchery and lawlessness, and it all started happening when the refugee numbers began to swell last year, no coincidence at all. There were 7,000 genuine refugees living in Rukban last year, and over the last 12 month more genuine refugees may have arrived, but only a trickle of genuine refugees would have been added to that 7,000, a few hundred at most. This desolate area doesn’t have too many people living around here even without a war to scare them away, so even if every single person living within 150 km of the camp was displaced, except for Palmyra, I doubt there’d be more than 100,000 people full stop, which would mean half of them are already living in this camp, not one chance in hell they are. So who makes up the other 40,000+ at Al Tanf if they’re not genuine refugees, Isis and ex FSA do, that’s who. All the Isis fighters who aren’t fighting the SAA in the deserts of Deir ez Zor and Homs, or fighting HTS in Idlib, and the ex FSA fighters who didn’t want to go to Aleppo and join Erdogan’s new army, are all here in this camp now, along with all their families as well, and the families of the FSA fighters that did go to Aleppo to join Erdogan, and the families of the Isis fighters that are away fighting in Idlib or elsewhere, are also living here in this camp. So if you’ve had the impression that the majority of genuine refugees at this camp are being terrorized by a smaller minority of thugs, you’d be wrong, the truth is it’s more likely 40,000 thugs standing over 10,000 refugees, and if you think that sounds bad just imagine living there, and no, I don’t mean all the FSA and Isis families children are thugs, just most of the older ones, over the age of about 7 maybe, or maybe as low as 6 or 5. God help these poor people, they’re being eaten alive and no one’s helping them, the UNHCR was remarkably silent when Erdogan displaced 300,000 Kurds from their homes during his invasion of northern Aleppo, and now even more remarkably, they’re even more silent this time, now there’s another genuine refugee crisis, I wonder why? Could it be they’re just plain embarrassed about their last failure, and don’t want to be embarrassed again, just in case they also get this wrong, Nah, they always turn a blind eye to NATO, that’s the reason they don’t. I remember what the UNHCR analysts predicted would happen when the SAA mounted their campaign to take back Daraa and Quneitra from the rebels, I laughed my guts out back then, and I’m still laughing now, but I’m not laughing about Rukban. But I would have a good laugh if I could FORCE some members of the UNHCR, to live in the camp at Rukban for just a month, then they might start screaming as loudly as they did last June, RAPISTS, MURDERERS, STARVATION, HUMANITARIAN CRISIS, unless they ended up in a grave before they could. It’s time for Assad to start a dialogue with Trump, man to man, do it via the media and do it soon, shaming works best when done in the public domain, and the US has had more than enough time to pull out all their critical agents living in the camp, if there’s no one left in the camp with secrets to tell, there’s no reason to keep the camp open, or a reason to keep Assad’s boys from sorting out the wolves from the sheep, end the suffering.