Shantytowns Springing Up In Iraq

[Hissyspit]

Source: CNN

Shantytowns springing up in Iraq
POSTED: 5:20 p.m. EDT, June 15, 2007

(CNN) -- Iraqis fleeing their homes because of sectarian warfare are starting to set up their own makeshift camps inside the country, a development reflecting the dire scope of the country's population displacement problem.

Andrew Harper, head of U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees' Iraq support unit in Geneva, said that internally displaced people are setting up shantytowns because they haven't been able to find safe harbor with their relatives or friends and have been kicked out of public squares and government buildings in cities and towns.

"We're finally starting to see the creation of camps inside Iraq," said Harper, who spoke and provided detail to CNN via e-mail.

Iraq's displacement crisis is the most significant in the Middle East since the changes in population that occurred during the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. There are believed to be 2.2 million Iraqi refugees in neighboring countries and 2 million displaced internally, according to the UNHCR.


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/06/15/iraq.shantytowns/index.html

[leftchick]

1. Iraq as it was before the US Destruction and Occupation

I know Saddam was a "bad man" but he did not destroy a fraction of what the USA has.....

http://www.oberlin.edu/art/Iraq/Iraq3.html

[Judi Lynn]

2. The Iraqi survivors, after they have moved beyond shock and grief will be so sick,

remembering there used to be a country there.

Thanks for posting that photo.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

3. to say nothing of the fact...

millions of Iraqis with personal vendettas against the United States will do fucking wonders for us,

[IndianaGreen]

4. America brought them Jesus, freedom and democray. They should be grateful!

Meanwhile, we will take their oil, as our Democratic Congress directed them to do.

[truth2power]

5. Hey, Petraeus...Where are the pictures

of the amusement parks in Baghdad? Huh?? :rofl:

How many roller coasters? You said they were big.

[ToeBot]

6. Bushvilles? nt

[grilled onions]

7. Crawford East

Will * be honorary mayor?

[rodeodance]

8. next to the amuzement parks that Patraus was talking about?