WHAT IS RUKBAN?
Rukban is a camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) in the dessert in Syria, It is home to 12,000 (nearly 1/2 of whom are children) civilians with no where else to go having fled other regions of Syria controlled by the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad and ISIS
The regime blocks aid deliveries and thus the people of Rukban starve without food, healthcare, or sewage,
THE CRISIS IN RUKBAN
Rukban is currently under siege Syrian regime checkpoints control all roads out of Rukban into other parts of Syria
Iraq and Jordan have closed their borders to asylum-seekers
The regime’s blockade of U.N. aid entering Syria through Damascus seeks to starve the camp into submission
Already, tens of thousands have left the camp in desperation, only to face arbitrary arrest, conscription, torture, and execution at the hands of the regime
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