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UNICEF Warns Syria Could Mark “One of Biggest Humanitarian Emergencies in Decades”

HeadlineSep 05, 2012

The new United Nations envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, spoke as the United Nations disclosed a record 100,000 refugees fled Syria in August and activists claimed some 5,000 people were killed during the same period. Patrick McCormick of the United Nations Children’s Fund warned that Syria could become a major humanitarian emergency.

Patrick McCormick: ”UNICEF is concerned, deeply concerned, that in Syria and the surrounding region we may be or are looking at one of the biggest humanitarian emergencies in the last decades, when you consider so many of the factors involved in this crisis.”

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