"the greatest mass exodus of people ever in the Middle East"

[donsu]

http://counterpunch.com/


Four Million Iraqis on the Run


Two thousand Iraqis are fleeing their homes every day. It is the greatest mass exodus of people ever in the Middle East and dwarfs anything seen in Europe since the Second World War. Four million people, one in seven Iraqis, have run away, because if they do not they will be killed. Two million have left Iraq, mainly for Syria and Jordan, and the same number have fled within the country.

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Even so the UNHCR is having difficulty raising $100m (£50m) for relief. The organization says the two countries caring for the biggest proportion of Iraqi refugees - Syria and Jordan - have still received "next to nothing from the world community". Some 1.4 million Iraqis have fled to Syria according to the UN High Commission for Refugees, Jordan has taken in 750 000 while Egypt and Lebanon have seen 200 000 Iraqis cross into their territories.

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Refugees are getting an increasingly cool reception wherever they flee, because there are so many of them and because of the burden they put on resources. "People here blame us for forcing up rents and the price of food," said Omar, who had taken his family to Damascus after his sister's leg was fractured by a car bomb.

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"The majority left Baghdad because somebody knocked on the door of their house and told them to get out in an hour," says Rosina Ynzenga, who runs the Spanish charity Solidarity International (SIA) which pays for a mobile clinic to visit the camp.

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stay in a depleted uranium poisoned country that's constantly bombed and the people shot at or flee to a place that doesn't want you. some choice.

americans will surely pay for this crime against Iraq.

[Warpy]

1. Riverbend said her family was leaving

and was in the process of sorting through what to take and what to abandon.

I hope she is able to check in soon. I hope she is all right.

[Rydz777]

2. We have created a disaster. Out NOW. n/t

[Rex]

3. We caused this, all the while George goofs around

looking under tables (no WMDS here yuck yuck) and under chairs (nope not here either) to a crowd of 3000 dollar dinner plate RW assholes - they love it and yuck for their leader.

How can we not pay for this man's crimes!? Now watch this drive, bring em on, fool me once, what the fuck ever George - thanks for letting us down.

[populistdriven]

4. "more oil for us" say the pukes