DAY 7: War may make hundreds of thousands of young Syrians stateless (Reuters)

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Some three million Syrians have left as refugees and 3.5 million are displaced within the country. More than half of Syrian refugees are children, but many families were unable to register them before fleeing abroad.

Some 51,000 Syrian babies have been born in exile. Three quarters of those born in Lebanon have not been registered and experts believe the proportion is similar in other countries hosting Syrian refugees.

“It should really alarm us that we have 77 percent of refugee births unregistered in one country, that we have nationality through the father only, that we have so many missing fathers,” Sen told Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Also at risk of statelessness are the 8,000 refugee children who are unaccompanied or separated from their families.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/17/us-foundation-syria-crisis-stateless-idUSKBN0HC1W420140917?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

Like state sponsored child abuse.

In my view, we are the problem, not the solution in the middle east.

[pampango]

1. 3 1/2 years of fighting with "high casualty rates", "3 million refugees" and "3.5 million displaced"

within Syria will do that. Close to 200,000 people, mostly civilians of course, have been killed in a little over 40 months.

The civilian and refugee crisis in and around Syria is the worst since WWII. The world should be ashamed that this violence has gone on for 3 1/2 years and shows no signs of stopping.

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2. Gotta get on board with the rebels... who are f-ing crazy.. so we can oust Assad, cuz he's socialist

pathetic