| inbluevt | Date: Thursday, 2013/06/27, 6:20 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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The Syrian war's death toll may be as high as 100,000 now, but as the violence mounts, the options for escaping it are shrinking. Countries
like Turkey and Iraq have long limited the number of Syrian refugees who
can cross their borders, and now there are increasingly clear signs
that Jordan, which hosts more than half a million refugees, is doing the same.
Since May 17, there has been a precipitous decline in the number of refugees entering the kingdom. Jordanian officials insist that this is
not a result of a government policy, but an uptick in fighting on the
Syrian side of the border, which prevents refugees from reaching Jordan
safely."We have not changed our way of handling the matter," says Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour. "There are lulls, sometimes,
not many people come. ... It also depends on who has the upper hand on
the other side. If the government forces have the upper hand, then we
expect less [to cross].""It is not a policy – it is a situation," he says.
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