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| Subject: Rights violations: Thanks to immoral statists, Syrian exodus hit 100,000 last month Tue Sep 04, 2012 10:09 pm | |
| The UN refugee agency says 100,000 refugees fled Syria in August alone, the highest monthly total since the uprising began.
A spokeswoman, Melissa Fleming, said the rise in people seeking asylum in neighbouring countries brought the total of Syrian refugees registered or awaiting registration with her agency to 234,368 as of Sunday.
Ms Fleming told reporters that ''when you do the math, it's quite an astonishing number''.
Syria's top government spokesman, meanwhile, declared that the refugees fleeing its borders were welcome back ''at any time''. Advertisement
The Information Minister, Omran al-Zoebi, held an unusual televised news conference on Monday that appeared intended to rebut international criticism of Syria over the swelling refugee crisis on its borders and the mounting death toll at home.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/exodus-hit-100000-last-month-20120904-25chu.html#ixzz25Ybnoxl8
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