In Syria, they were led by Al-Assad family since 1971 and the where Quasi-Dictator. The Arab countries forced the dictator to step down, but the Syrian dictator refused to step down and caused the civil war in march 15 2011. The refugees of the Syrian Civil War were forced to flee to neighboring countries like Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, and Lebanon. While Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE, Oman, and Qatar have accepted zero refugees, source 2 it considers "extremely shameful". Also, there are tons of misconceptions about refugees.
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For Example is that they are subjected to freezing, hunger, and disease. This is due to the fact that the camps are crowded and not sufficiently supplied.Many people have lost hope, so they decided to seek asylum in Europe. Additionally, Europe had spent over two billion Euros in border patrols and other related items and spent very little amounts of money for a huge influx of refugees. Therefore, Europe was poorly prepared for this amount of refugees. Furthermore, refugees had to stay in the state they arrived first. In addition, at the time Greece was near an economical disaster. Because of this, they could not take care of all of the refugees in Greece so they put some of them on the island that was used for only tourists. Now they are desperate and hungry. Also in 2014 the UK decided to stop Mare Nostrum and the it was a huge search and rescue program to help asylum seekers not drown. They stopped the program because the UK thought that higher death tolls in the sea would mean less asylum seekers, but that idea didn’t work because there was a picture of a deceased boy off the coast of