Warning over spiralling Iraq refugee crisis

[LiviaOlivia]

Warning over spiralling Iraq refugee crisis
Matt Weaver and agencies
Thursday December 7, 2006
Guardian Unlimited

The surging violence in Iraq has created what is becoming the biggest refugee crisis in the world, a humanitarian group said today.

A report (pdf) by Washington-based Refugees International said an influx of Iraqis threatened to overwhelm other Middle Eastern countries, particularly Syria, Jordon and Lebanon.

Last month, the UN estimated that 100,000 people were fleeing the country each month, with the number of Iraqis now living in other Arab countries standing at 1.8 million.

Today's report came as George Bush and Tony Blair were due to discuss the situation in Iraq, which the bipartisan Iraq Study Group yesterday described as "grave and deteriorating".

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1966333,00.html

[LiviaOlivia]

1. per Laura Rozen

"The horrific irony is that the potential humanitarian crisis anticipated at the time of the invasion was largely avoided -- only to have it spiral now into this. US-occupied Iraq has become the source of the fastest growing refugee crisis in the world."

http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/005294.html

[Earth_First]

2. Is this a MSM "biggest refugee crisis in the world..."

The refuge situation in Darfur region is beyond comprehension.

I am certainly not trying to attribute degrees of refugee atrocities, however it seems as though the situation in Sudan is often overlooked.

*sigh*

[humbled_opinion]

3. Sudan Overlooked becasue....

There is no oil there.