The heads of the joint Russia-Syria coordination centre on refugee repatriation has accused US authorities of treating refugees at the Rukban camp, located on the Syrian-Jordanian border, like animals in line with their “colonial mentality”.
The centre slammed Washington in a statement for not caring about the dire humanitarian situation in the camp and instead accusing Russia and Syria, which are trying to draw international attention to the fact that the United States is forcefully holding people in the camp, of “propaganda”.
The heads of coordination centre also suggested that the most vulnerable refugees in Rukban — women, children, elderly and sick people — should be immediately evacuated from the camp as a gesture of goodwill.