Syrian opposition warns of the dangers of the Lebanese government’s plan to deport Syrian refugees
The Lebanese Ministry of Interior requested the High Commissioner for Refugees to provide it with data to prepare a mechanism for counting Syrian refugees in Lebanon in coordination with the Ministry of Social Affairs and Public Security and the High Commissioner for Refugees, with the aim of implementing a plan approved by the Lebanese government in the middle of last year to return Syrian refugees to their “homes”.
In an exclusive interview with Fresh, Dr. Yahya Al-Aridi, a spokesman for the negotiating committee, said, “Hezbollah and the existing Lebanese authority that controls it have not stopped harassing the Syrian refugees and permanently abusing them, and even plundering the UN aid allocated to them. The most important thing is to keep them under threat of deportation, to be at the mercy of the tyrant who caused their displacement and asylum.
This is the last movement to restrict the refugees to lists submitted to the end of the Assad regime for elections, as it will consider them all among the votes that “Bashar Al-Assad” gets, according to Al-Aridi.
Ghazwan Kronfol, director of the Syrian Lawyers Association to Fresh, “The Lebanese authority is still searching for all means through which to express its hostility to the Syrians and its racist stance towards the Syrian refugees.”
“The Lebanese authorities are seeking to return the Syrian refugees, claiming that their country has become safe, knowing that the end of the armed conflict does not necessarily mean that the country has become safe, especially since the ruling authority is one of the parties to the conflict, and therefore the Syrian refugees will be subject to persecution, arrest and murder under torture,” Kronfol pointed out. .
This is taking place amid a silent position of international human rights organizations to pressure the Lebanese authorities to stop the deportation of refugees to Syria.
By the end of 2020 the number of displaced Syrians in Lebanon registered with the UNHCR reached 865,331 refugees, while the number of Syrian refugees residing in Lebanon is estimated at 1.5 million.
