Refugee crisis: 'You see walking skeletons'
"In Madaya, you see walking skeletons."
This is the nightmare lived by Mohammad, a resident of a small besieged town in Syria as told to Amnesty International. "The children are always crying," he said.
"Every day, I feel that I will faint and not wake up again."
"I have a wife and three children. We eat once every two days to make sure that whatever we buy doesn't run out. On other days, we have water and salt and sometimes the leaves from trees."
It is the kind of horror refugees are fleeing all over the world.
The millions of refugees from Syria, Eritrea, Myanmar and elsewhere -- living in limbo or braving desperate journeys in search of asylum -- are, for many of us, the most visible symbol of how governments are stripping people of fundamental human rights, in this case the right to seek safe haven.… Seguir leyendo »