Refugee crisis at unparalleled level-UN officials
- 11 years ago
While Capitol Hill debates, world leaders discuss and military factions prepare, one of the the largest groups of people affected by the situation in Syria are virtually voiceless.
They're the estimated two million refugees who've fled the country facing uncertain futures regardless of any international action against the government.
United Nations officials have called the humanitarian crisis 'unparalleled' warning the world faces its greatest threat to peace since the Vietnam war.
Every day, about 5,000 Syrians cross the borders into Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq.... the Ismail family is amongst them.
Peroz and her husband packed up their family - including their newborn baby - and fled to northern Iraq.
The journey was difficult.
(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) SYRIAN REFUGEE WHO FLED SYRIA WHEN HER NEWBORN WAS 3 DAYS OLD, PEROZ ISMAIL, SAYING:
"I suffered a lot on the trip here, because I was sick and so was she. For three days I had no milk to give her. I
They're the estimated two million refugees who've fled the country facing uncertain futures regardless of any international action against the government.
United Nations officials have called the humanitarian crisis 'unparalleled' warning the world faces its greatest threat to peace since the Vietnam war.
Every day, about 5,000 Syrians cross the borders into Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq.... the Ismail family is amongst them.
Peroz and her husband packed up their family - including their newborn baby - and fled to northern Iraq.
The journey was difficult.
(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) SYRIAN REFUGEE WHO FLED SYRIA WHEN HER NEWBORN WAS 3 DAYS OLD, PEROZ ISMAIL, SAYING:
"I suffered a lot on the trip here, because I was sick and so was she. For three days I had no milk to give her. I