Published : 28-11-2020
Reports of drug consumption and trafficking have increasingly emerged in AlNeirab Camp for Palestinian refugees, in Syria.
Reporting from Aleppo, an AGPS correspondent said that a couple of weeks ago the Syrian security forces arrested a group of young men, including conscripts, for promoting smuggled narcotic pills inside the Palestine Liberation Army. Another four people from Nobl area were arrested on the same charges.
A large sum of money, hundreds of narcotic pills and a kilogram of cocaine, were seized. Four other youths aged between 18 and 23 years were also arrested in the same manhunt.
Sometime earlier, members of Liwaa AlQuds armed group, affiliated with the Syrian regime, have been accused of running a network for drug trafficking in AlNeirab displacement camp and adjacent areas.
Drug distribution is often carried out by children aged below 18 and members of cash-strapped and vulnerable families who are exploited by illicit drug trafficking networks which are subject to drug prohibition laws.
Daily scenes of destruction and bloodshed in Syria forced dozens of helpless civilians, among them children, to consume drugs and sniff glue, among other life-threatening substances, as a means to get over the trauma inflicted by the unabated warfare. Drug use, which starts as a way to escape, quickly makes their life worse.
Reports of drug consumption and trafficking have increasingly emerged in AlNeirab Camp for Palestinian refugees, in Syria.
Reporting from Aleppo, an AGPS correspondent said that a couple of weeks ago the Syrian security forces arrested a group of young men, including conscripts, for promoting smuggled narcotic pills inside the Palestine Liberation Army. Another four people from Nobl area were arrested on the same charges.
A large sum of money, hundreds of narcotic pills and a kilogram of cocaine, were seized. Four other youths aged between 18 and 23 years were also arrested in the same manhunt.
Sometime earlier, members of Liwaa AlQuds armed group, affiliated with the Syrian regime, have been accused of running a network for drug trafficking in AlNeirab displacement camp and adjacent areas.
Drug distribution is often carried out by children aged below 18 and members of cash-strapped and vulnerable families who are exploited by illicit drug trafficking networks which are subject to drug prohibition laws.
Daily scenes of destruction and bloodshed in Syria forced dozens of helpless civilians, among them children, to consume drugs and sniff glue, among other life-threatening substances, as a means to get over the trauma inflicted by the unabated warfare. Drug use, which starts as a way to escape, quickly makes their life worse.
