Any refugee living on only $13 a month, as is the case for many Syrians in Lebanon, would want to immigrate to Europe, former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband said at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
He added that the solution to the Syrian refugee crisis was not to increase aid to refugees, but to find a permanent solution to help them go back home. The price of this tragedy is greater than money — whole societies and political systems are involved.
Unless massacres are stopped, millions of Syrians will keep looking for safe havens.
They are escaping murder, hunger and cold. Lives are suspended in inhuman refugee camps.
This will not be solved soon because some politicians have concocted a solution satisfying Iran and Russia in Vienna and Geneva.
The enormous sums spent on security and care of Syrian refugees worldwide could have been saved if the international community had intervened against the Syrian regime in the last five bloody years.
Every time we criticize the international community’s inaction, some think we are calling for western troops in Syria, but our sole demand has been to let Syrians buy defensive weapons to counter fighter jets.
The international community has rejected military intervention and the provision of such weapons. With such a weak stand, it is normal that the crisis expanded regionally and even into Europe, which is separated from Syria only by Turkey.
Millions of Syrians are scattered across the region and beyond, and millions more displaced inside their country. The mishandling of the Syrian tragedy led to the rise of Daesh. There is currently no hope for a political solution despite all the talk of diplomacy.
