Angelina Jolie visits Syrian refugees
LONDON. September 11. KAZINFORM With the Syrian refugee crisis reaching epic proportions, actress and U.N. Special Envoy Angelina Jolie visited displaced residents Tuesday at a tent camp in Jordan.
The trip draws attention to the plight of more than 253,000 Syrians who have fled their country during 18 months of relentless bloodshed. More than 85,000 refugees have escaped to Jordan, and many more have fled to neighboring Turkey, Lebanon and Iraq, CNN informs.
Jolie said she was appalled by "the amount of innocent children I've met here who are wounded and unaccompanied, with their parents being killed, and now they're on their own."
She relayed horror stories of things that children said they had witnessed, such as "body parts separated, and burned people being pulled apart, like chicken. A little 9-year-old girl said that."
"I am grateful to Jordan and the border countries for saving the lives (of those) who are dying in Syria. It's an extraordinary thing," Jolie said at the Zaatari Refugee Camp in Mafraq.
"We encourage the international community to support the people here until one day they go back home."
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