Refugees Flee Iraq in Record Numbers
For the third year running, Iraq produced more new refugees in 2007 than any other country in the world. So reports the World Refugee Survey 2008, a brand new study by the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI).
Despite an alleged drop in violence due to President Bush's troop surge, over a million Iraqis fled the country last year, joining another million driven abroad since the United States first invaded Iraq in March 2003. An overwhelming majority of these refugees reside in Syria and Jordan.
Why it took nearly four years to export a million persons, whereas it only took twelve months to shed another million, ought to be worth considering. Could it be that Iraq is less peaceful than it was in 2003? Yes, quite possibly.
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- Blog Source: www.amnesty.orgPeople fleeing Iraq now face visa restrictions as they try to enter Jordan and Syria. Sweden, host to the largest number of Iraqi refugees in Europe, has now changed its approach and is returning refugees to very dangerous areas of ...
- Blog Source: jesurgislac.wordpress.com... that they were among the dead, or the injured, or the refugees who had been forced to flee. (As Eric also noted, to consider the scale of the disruption caused by 4 million Iraqi refugees, think 40 million American refugees.) ...
- Blog Source: cujo359.blogspot.comIraqi refugees facing desperate situation. I'd written back in October that the rest of the world beyond Syria and Jordan haven't been doing nearly enough. Nothing about that seems to have chenged. Reports on treatment of Kurdish ...
- Blog Source: themoderatevoice.comThe administration has allocated 12000 slots for such Iraqi refugees this year–and is very slow in filling them. But how about the two-million-plus Iraqis who are languishing in Syria, Jordan and elsewhere? Will we welcome hundreds of ...
- Blog Source: evilpoet-lostinthought.blogspot.comtime soon -- even as huge numbers of Iraqi refugees continue to flee their ravaged land." - Andrew... efforts to help alleviate the suffering of more than 36 million people worldwide including refugees
- Blog Source: expat.wnymedia.netThe conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan accounted for more than half the world’s refugees in 2007. More than 2 million Iraqis have sought refuge in Syria and Jordan, and 3 million Afghans in Pakistan and Iran, the refugee agency said… ...
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