"The U.S. Government does not want to recognize them, the European Union wants to keep quiet on it,"

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070904/29169_Relief_Agencies_Offer_'Only_Hope'_for_Iraqi_Refugees.htm

Relief Agencies Offer 'Only Hope' for Iraqi Refugees

International relief agencies present "the only hope" for the Iraqi refugees who lack proper shelter, water and food, said the president of one of the largest Christian relief and development organizations in the world.

"We have great concern for the Iraqi refugees that are in Jordan. We're working there. We're concerned about the refugees in Syria. These are forgotten people," World Vision International President Dean Hirsch told Agence France-Presse in an interview last week.

About four million of Iraq's 26 million people have fled the country, according to the United Nations, including those who left before the 2003 U.S.-led offensive and warfare that followed.

An estimated 1.4 million of those went to Syria and 750,000 to Jordan.

"The U.S. Government does not want to recognize them, the European Union wants to keep quiet on it," and the refugees are also a sensitive matter for the Jordanians, Hirsch told AFP during a meeting of World Vision's top governing body in Singapore.

"It's a very tragic story ... and it is wrong," he added.

[Disturbed]

1. Obviously, not many American give a damn about the Iraqis.

If it weren't for US Troops getting killed &/or maimed Iraq would be a non issue just as Afghanistan Fiasco is.

[enough]

2. k&r

[necso]

3. If 4 million people

have fled the country, and 1.1 million are internally displaced, then that's nearly 20% of a prewar population of 26 million.

That's a large percentage of the population to be displaced. And even at half that number (10%), it's indicative of great turmoil, of a civil war that's having profound effects.

And if the number of refugees contains a higher-than-average percentage (relative to the general population) of Sunnis (Sunni Arabs), then an even higher proportion of the Sunni population has been displaced (ie, somewhere between greater-than-10% and much-greater-than-20%).

[NNN0LHI]

4. .....

[Richard Steele]

5. Over a million dead, and millions of "refugees" unaccounted for. No "reporters" dare speak of it.

Recommended.

[ck4829]

6. K&R

[LeftishBrit]

7. k&r

A most important issue.