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Turkey has done little to alleviate their fears as the kurds have poured out of these areas arabs have been bused in. syrian refugees who turkish authorities claim are originally from these areas. after more than eight years of civil war this part of syria is full of stories of people forcibly displaced. in the christian village of tal nasr we find more families from ras al ayin sheltering in the ruins of a destroyed church. will you try to go home, i ask these women. there s no home to go to, they reply. isis cleansed this area of christians when it was in control. they have yet to return. now the village provides refuge for another people. forced from their homes with no sense of a possible return. ....
Cnn s clarissa ward has more from northern syria on civilians paying the price for the u.s. exit. reporter: class should be in session now. but here in hasaqa the school has become a temporary shelter for displaced people in one classroom we meet ibrahim hassan. the kurdish father of five tells us he was forced to flee his home in ras al ayin with his children when the turkish military operation began. this is what remains of his house. ibrahim says it is one of many in his kurdish neighborhood that was deliberately ransacked by turkish-backed forces. translator: they took everything. and after they took all our belongings they set it on fire, burned it all. reporter: just days before the offensive began ibrahim s children had posed smiling with u.s. troops patrolling the area. ....
Resources are scarce. because of the security situation international aid agencies have had to pull out, leaving the kurds with no one to rely on themselves. she s saying it s really difficult here because it s very cold, especially at night. they don t have enough food. they don t have electricity. and the water s not good. camp organizers say there are 3,000 people living here now, with more arriving every day. almost everyone in this camp is from the town of ras al ayin. and ras al ayin used to be around 75% kurdish. now we re told there s just a handful of kurds left and the people here believe that the ultimate goal of this turkish offensive is to essentially push the kurds out of this area completely and change the ethnic makeup of it forever. ....