People prefer to stay in Aleppo to coming to Armenia... (video)
Armenians in Aleppo pinned great hopes on Armenia but later it became clear that it is not easy to find a job in Armenia, writer and publicist Hakob Mikaelyan said on Friday. What surprised Syrian Armenians who moved to Armenia for permanent residence? There are a lot of empty buildings in Yerevan but they are not allocated to refugees. As a result, people have begun to lose hope thinking that their homeland cannot do anything for them. Sosi Mishoyan, coordinator of a Facebook page that raises the problems of Syrian Armenians, says she left Aleppo in 2014 after the events in Kessab, an Armenian-populated town in northwestern Syria. “Yesterday I was talking to a friend from Aleppo who said local Armenians are in despair and are waiting for the chariot of death because they are not financially secured and cannot get out of Syria. They live in chaos, many are doomed to death, they need humanitarian aid,” Sosi Mishoyan said. She added that many Syrian Armenians were disappointed after they arrived in Armenia. Those who stay in Aleppo are afraid to come to Armenia because they cannot find jobs. They prefer to stay in Aleppo to coming to Armenia and facing the bitter reality.
