Kurdish rebels lose USAID funding for concentration camp
c/worldnews · u/geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml · 69 points
Blumont, a Virginia-based humanitarian aid group responsible for the management of two of Syria’s IS detention camps, al-Hol and al-Roj, was given a stop-work order on 24 January by the US state department.
The camp holds the **relatives** of **suspected** IS fighters and is **mostly populated by women and children**. Rights groups have for years warned that detainees are held arbitrarily without charges in inhumane and substandard living conditions.
**No charges have been raised against the camp’s population.** Despite this, they are unable to leave, with the exception of non-Syrian detainees whose countries agree to take them back.