Panel in Cizre Region on World Refugee Day: Thousands live in refugee camps
The number of the people living in the refugee camps in the Cizre Region was announced at the panel held in the region on the World Refugee Day.
Qamishlo- Cizre Region Human Rights Organization and Cizre Region Lawyers’ Association held a panel in the city of Qamishlo to mark the World Refugee Day, observed every year on June 20.
The panel was held at the conference hall of Rojava University with the motto, “Forced displacement is a crime against humanity” with the participation of the representatives of NGOs, lawyers and many students of the Rojava University.
During the first section of the panel, Cizre Region Human Rights Organization member Evin Cuma made a speech about her work on the humanitarian values of being refugees and shared the figures in the report prepared about the situation of refugees and displaced in North and East Syria. 24,565 families, 107,093 citizens, live in the refugee camps in the Cizre Region while 6,660 families, 33,820 citizens, live in the refugee camps in the Euphrates Region, according to the report. During the second section of the panel, the legal situation of Syrian refugees and displaced people, and the project of relocating one million Syrians to the occupied areas of NE Syria were discussed.
Thousands of displaced people have lived in the refugee camps, according to the report. The number of the people living in the refugee camps in the Cizre region, Euphrates Region and Afrin Region is as follows:
The refugee camps in the Cizre Region
Serêkaniyê Camp: 2, 349 families, 13, 242 people
Erîşa Camp: 2,845 families, 14, 542 people
Washokani Camp: 2,347 families, 16,157 people
Newroz Camp: 1,013 families, 4, 390 people
Al-Hol Camp: 15,205 families, 56, 124 people from Syria, Iraq and Europe
Roj Camp: 806 families, 2,638 people from Syria, Iraq and Europe
The refugee camps in the Euphrates Region
Til Semin Camp: 1,246 families, 6, 448 people
Mehmudlî Camp: 1,750 families, 8,900 people
Tewahîna Camp: 585 families, 2,200 people
Manbij Camp (New): 649 family, 3, 355 people
Manbij Camp (Old): 430 families, 2,179 people
Ebu Xeşeb Camp: 2,000 families, 10,738 people
The refugee camps in the Afrin Region
Berxwedan Camp: 677 families, 2,673 people
Esir Camp: 763 families, 3,175 people
Shahba Camp: 103 families, 480 people
Afrin Camp: 114 families, 447 people
Ewda Camp: 103 families, 468 people.