A BOAT CARRYING 500 REFUGEES SUNK AT SEA.  THE STORY OF TWO SURVIVORS

Melissa Fleming | April 2016

... Let me take a pause in this story right here and ask the question: why do refugees like Doaa take these kinds of risks? Millions of refugees are living in exile, in limbo. They're living in countries [fleeing] from a war that has been raging for four years. Even if they wanted to return, they can't. Their homes, their businesses, their towns and their cities have been completely destroyed.

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​The Syria war has driven almost four million people over the borders, but over seven million people are on the run inside the country. That means that over half the Syrian population has been forced to flee.

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