Conditions in Iraqi refugee camps 'atrocious': UN official

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http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2007/06/17/iraq-refugees.html

A United Nations refugee official says "atrocious" makeshift camps for internally displaced people are beginning to sprout across Iraq because the homeless have nowhere else to go.

Andrew Harper, a co-ordinator for the UN refugee agency in Iraq, says more communities within the country are closing their doors to people fleeing violence, forcing people to create their own poorly equipped camps.

Harper recently sounded the warning about the camps, saying they're like slums. They don't have proper provisions for sewage, shelter or security, he said. In addition, bringing in relief supplies is a risky business.

"They are atrocious," he told the Reuters news agency.

Harper said at one site near the holy Shia city of Najaf, which is home to 200 families, people are drinking from a polluted water source.

[EFerrari]

1. We have been killing these people off since 1968 when

the CIA helped Saddam into power. That's almost forty years. Is it genocide yet? :(