About 110,000 Syrian refugees are now living in the Zaatari Camp in Jordan. And while life may be better there than in the war-ravaged country they fled, some describe the camp as a lawless and frightening place. Muhammad Hamed / Reuters
'The Jungle': Syrian Refugees Endure Crowded, Lawless Camp -- NBC
ZAATARI CAMP, Jordan -- Just 5 miles from Jordan's border with the war-torn country he fled, Ahmed Mohammad Salti spends each day cleaning one corner of the largest camps for Syrian refugees in the Middle East.
At night, gangs of youngsters run wild in the Zaatari Camp, battering and defacing walls, throwing rocks and creating "mess and rubbish," he said.
Salti, 33, says he feels powerless to stop them.
"We have really, really naughty kids here who have become sort of criminalized street kids," said Kilian Kleinschmidt, camp manager and field coordinator for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR. "They are out of control."
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My Comment: From prosperity and a home to being a refugee living in poverty .... all within one year .... coupled with the loss of a loved one and/or loved ones .... this has become the nightmare scenario for tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees.
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