http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-2279232,00.htmlTens of thousands of Iraqis have fled their homes as sectarian violence has turned increasingly bitter since the US-backed national unity Government was formed two months ago, official statistics released yesterday showed.
Sattar Nowruz, the Migration Ministry spokesman, said that there was a rise of about 32,000 internal refugees over the past three weeks, taking the total to about 162,000 over the past five months. snip
Shia leaders joined the United Nations and the United States in raising the alarm over the bloodshed, and a form of “ethnic cleansing” that the Government has labelled “campaigns of displacement”.
The US military admitted that the violence in Baghdad was little changed despite a big security clampdown, while the city mortuary said it had seen 1,000 bodies of victims so far in July, a slight increase on June.
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