Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

For Lebanon-based Refugees, Desperation Fuels Perilous Passage

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Any doubts that Syrian refugee Dania harbored about paying human traffickers to smuggle her to Europe were erased with the gunfire that nearly killed her brother. “He was working at a small stand selling things [in a refugee camp in Beirut] when two men walked up to him,” said the 21-year-old, who is of Palestinian origin but grew up in Syria before fleeing to Lebanon with her family in late 2012. “They told him that they could kill a Lebanese Palestinian and it might cost them a...

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