Britain rejects UNHCR call to accept Syrian refugees

Britain has dismissed a call by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which asked western states to at least accept 30,000 of the millions of the Syrian refugees displaced by a civil war they plotted and endorsed from the beginning.

The UK government was one of the major players behind the foreign-backed militancy that has gripped Syria for over three years, but now that millions of people have been forced to leave as a result of its conspiracy against the popular government of President Bashar al-Assad, the British authorities have effectively said “no” to the UNHCR’s call to let in some of the most vulnerable refugees.

The government of Prime Minister David Cameron went so far as creating an international alliance to invade Syria and topple its government militarily like what they did in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.

Now that the UNHCR is seeking to relocate some people, including orphaned children, elderly people and women under a threat of sexual violence to safer countries, the UK government has rejected the demand, saying instead that it is ready to lead the relief work to help more than 2.1 million refugees living in border camps in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq.

Meanwhile, some aid organizations inside the UK have denounced the government’s rejection of the UNHCR’s call.

“It’s hard to understand why they are taking this position given that this is something that we have done in the past during the problems, the conflict in the Balkans, we took in thousands of Kosovans and Bosnian refugees. I fear it may be domestic immigration considerations that’s influencing them,” said Anna Musgrave, an advocacy officer at Refugee Council, UK’s leading organization working with refugees and asylum seekers.