The below letter was handed to a UN worker at the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan by a Syrian man who had fled the country’s civil war.
Nasreddine Touaibia, who works for the UN’s refugee agency, posted these photos on Twitter after he was given the letter yesterday by a man in his 20s, one of 80,000 refugees at Zaatari
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In the letter, supposedly written on a UNHCR ration card, the unnamed refugee explains the pain he and his sister feel after being forced to abandon their university studies in Damascus.
"My sister, who has spent three bitter successive years without study, sheds tears day by night. She is in a pitiful state lying in the caravan. Both of us have lost the most precious thing in our life, our studies."
After issuing a plea to be granted asylum in the west, he writes: “If we have the chance to live there we’ll fulfill our dreams. Aren’t we human beings? Are we born to eat drink and sleep only?
“What’s our sin and fault? Aren’t we worthy of honourable life? Our life has become unbearable hell? Please help us.”(i100.independent)
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