More than 750,000 Iraqis displaced since US invasion: UNHCR

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061020/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestunrefugees_061020142139

GENEVA (AFP) - More than 750,000 Iraqis have been displaced by violence since the US-led invasion of their country in March 2003 and their resources are running out, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has said.

Iraqis were also fleeing abroad in tens of thousands every month, it said Friday.

"We remain extremely concerned about the rapidly deteriorating situation in Iraq and the ongoing displacement this is creating both inside and outside Iraq," UNHCR spokesman Ron Redmond told a news conference in Geneva.

He said nearly half the 0.75 million internally displaced Iraqis had been forced to flee their homes in the past eight months because of the sharp rise in sectarian attacks that had followed the destruction in February of a holy Shiite shrine in Samarra, north of Baghdad.

"Our Iraq unit estimates 754,000 Iraqis have been internally displaced since 2003 -- some 365,000 of them just since February in sectarian violence sparked by the Samara bombings," he said.

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1. Wow!! And the average American can't understand why the world hates us!!

One million dead because of sanctions

650,000 dead after the invasion

More than 750,000 Iraqis displaced since US invasion




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2. I think they forgot to include the 655,000 who were "displaced" into

early graves.

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3. U.N.: 914,000 have fled homes in Iraq

U.N.: 914,000 have fled homes in Iraq
By FRANK JORDANS, Associated Press Writer

GENEVA - At least 914,000 Iraqis have fled their homes since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, more than a third since an increase in sectarian bloodshed at the start of this year, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.

The overall number is likely to be much higher, said Ron Redmond, chief spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. The agency has concluded that 754,000 displaced Iraqis remain in the country, while tens of thousands more have sought refuge abroad.

"We remain extremely concerned about the rapidly deteriorating situation in Iraq and the ongoing displacement this is creating both inside and outside Iraq," Redmond told reporters.

Redmond told The Associated Press that at least 40,000 Iraqis have arrived in Syria every month for the last four months.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061020/ap_on_re_mi_ea/un_refugees_iraq

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