06 October 2014 (11:07 UTC-07 Tango)/11 Dhu l-Hijja 1435/14 Mehr 1393/13 Jia-Xu 4712

Japan’s NHK (Nippon Housou Kyoukai/Japan Broadcasting Corporation) recently interviewed a Japanese Red Cross Society doctor who just returned from a refugee camp in the city of Dohok, Iraq.

The doctor, Suzuki Takao, talked about how NGOs trying to help the refugees are continually shuffled around by government officials, being given excuses why they aren’t allowed to visit this or that refugee camp.  There are now half a million Syrian refugees living in the camp at Dohok.  Suzuki also stated that there is no refugee ‘camp’ in Dohok.  Japanese Red Cross video shows that Syrians have taken over school buildings, and apartment buildings that are still under construction, basically living anywhere they can.  Suzuki also reported that 100% of the refugees are suffering from an unknown, possibly psychological illness: “Hundred percent all of them psychologically they are affected……the patients say ‘Oh I got a headache, oh I got a stomach ache, oh I got a lumbar ache’…you have to listen to them…you have to help them!”