10 years of civil war in Syria Humanitarian crisis worsens such as poverty and food shortage

It has been 15 days and 10 years since the democratization movement against the dictatorial Assad regime spread in Syria, where the civil war continues.

Civil war by the death toll reached 38 million people, but have deepened the humanitarian crisis such as people suffering from poverty and food shortages are rapidly increasing, not stand the prospect of civil war, people have been placed in a severe environment in which the invisible exit ..

In Syria, on March 15, 10 years ago, anti-government protests spread throughout the country in the form of a democratization movement called the "Arab Spring," which was suppressed by the Assad administration, leading to a fierce civil war. did.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which collects local information, 388,652 people have died so far, of which 117,388, or 30%, were citizens.

According to the United Nations and other sources, there are 6.6 million refugees and about 6.5 million internally displaced persons, and one in two people is displaced by the civil war.

In Syria, 80% of the poor live on less than $ 1.9 a day, and nearly 60% of the population, or 12.4 million, are suffering from food shortages, especially displaced persons in rebel-controlled areas. Many displaced persons are placed in harsh environments at camps.

An internally displaced man said, "Life in the camp is poor, there is no work or income, and it is difficult. I want to live a dignified life."

Another man said, "The existence of the Syrians has been forgotten. Look at the situation in which the Syrians were placed."

While the Assad administration has almost certainly secured a military victory over the Syrian civil war, the UN-mediated Constitutional Commission's most recent talks have ended in a farewell, and the process of aiming for a political solution has been stalled. prospect of termination does not stand.

In addition, while the international community has been distant from the interest of the international community due to the prolonged civil war, support groups and others have fallen into a shortage of funds, and the state of insufficient support continues, and the humanitarian crisis is becoming more serious.

Background and current situation

In Syria, 10 years ago, on March 15, 2011, the democratization movement "Arab Spring" spread, and demonstrations calling for democratization expanded.

In response, the dictatorial Assad regime cracked down by force, and while many civilians were sacrificed, it developed into a civil war with rebels seeking the resignation of President Assad.

At the beginning of the civil war, rebels supported by Western countries, Gulf countries, and neighboring Turkey expanded their territory with the addition of soldiers who left the government.

On the other hand, Russia and Iran, which have close ties to the Assad administration, will provide military assistance, and the civil war will involve the countries concerned and become bogged down.

Furthermore, taking advantage of the turmoil, the extremist organization IS = Islamic State unilaterally declared the establishment of an Islamic state that straddles Syria and Iraq in 2014 and expanded its power, further complicating the composition of the civil war.

The turning point was that the coalition of the willing, centered on the United States, launched an airstrike in Syria in 2014 with the aim of destroying IS, and in 2015, the following year, Russia, which supports the Assad administration, also launched an airstrike. It was started.

With the support of Russia's airstrikes, the Assad administration regained rebels and IS-controlled areas one after another, and the war situation leaned in favor of the administration.

Then, in December 2016, while the Assad administration completely suppressed Aleppo in the north, the largest base of the rebels, the rebels were divided into one and the northwestern Idlib province and its surroundings. I was cornered by.

After that, the Assad administration showed a total attack on Idrib province, and as the humanitarian crisis deepened, Russia behind the Assad administration and Turkey, which supports the rebels, signed a ceasefire agreement several times, but the ceasefire lasted for a long time. Without doing so, the situation where the battle reignited continued.

Since the ceasefire in March last year, large-scale battles in and around Idlib Governorate have subsided, but the offense and defense over the last stronghold on the part of the rebels has continued, and the stalemate has continued.

On the other hand, the extremist organization IS was weakened by the fall of Lakka in the north, which was positioned as the "capital" in 2017, and the last base in the east was also suppressed.

The main axis of the IS mopping operation was the Kurdish forces with the support of the United States, and as a result, the power expanded in the north, but the hostile Turkey invaded northern Syria and repeated military operations. It is a kind of fire.

On the other hand, in October, with the mediation of the United Nations, discussions with the Constitutional Committee, which drafted the Constitution with the participation of both the Assad administration and rebels, began, but no major progress was made and the political resolution of the civil war was reached. The process towards it is also virtually deadlocked.

In Syria, the turmoil and civil war of the last decade has called the "worst humanitarian crisis of the century", with about 12 million people, one in two people, being displaced from their homes. Yes, it's still invisible.

UNICEF "12,000 children killed or injured"

The UNICEF-UN Children's Fund has warned the international community by compiling a report that about 12,000 children were killed or injured in the civil war in Syria, which was involved in fighting and air strikes.

UNICEF released a report on children in Syria on the 10th of this month.

According to it, about 12,000 children were killed or injured between 2011 and last year when the turmoil began in Syria.

In addition, more than 5,700 children were involved in the fighting, some of whom were seven years old.

In addition, about 90% of children in Syria need humanitarian assistance, and the number of children fleeing abroad and living as refugees has increased more than 10 times since 2012 to 2.5 million.

In addition, the report warns that a total of 3.2 million children at home and abroad are unable to attend school, and that the trauma of the civil war has had a major impact on their growth.

UNICEF is seeking cooperation from the international community, saying that it will need about 1.4 billion dollars to support children in Syria, or 152 billion yen in Japanese yen.