Posted on 04/18/2013 8:01:45 AM PDT by marshmallow
Christians escaping the two-year civil war in Syria will soon have their own humanitarian aid camp, the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency of Turkey has said.
AFAD, as the agency is known, oversees the country’s humanitarian relief efforts. It said the separate camp for Christians is being built near Mor Abraham Syriac Monastery near the Turkish town of Midyat, about 30 miles from the Turkish-Syrian border.
The US bishops’ Catholic Relief Services reported in March that approximately 200 Syrian Christian refugees in that area were sheltering in local churches and were afraid to go to the other 17 relief camps on the border, where Turkey’s government is providing humanitarian assistance to an estimated 200,000 refugees, most of them Syrian Sunni Muslims.
A UN spokesman in Turkey said the decision to build the Christian camp is most probably the result of recent meetings between Turkish government and church officials.
“A month ago, some churches met with the Turkish foreign minister, and they requested that for Christians it would be better to open another camp,” Metin Corabatir, the spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Turkey, said
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Best if they put some armed Christian guards at that camp.
Best if they put some armed Christian guards at that camp.
For sure!
Sounds to me a little like sheep asking a wolf to protect them from coyotes...
Tip for any Christians:
Walk the other way!
Sincerely,
Armenians
Only groups the Christians up to make a target rich environment. One big target.
It’s a trap; getting them all in one place to be disposed of more easily.
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