GENEVA: More than 4 million Iraqis have now been displaced by violence in the country, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday, warning that the figure will continue to rise as Iraqi authorities struggle to provide food and medical services amid the current poor security situation.
Regional authorities and local municipalities are helpless to handle this relentless infantry of hungry and scared people.Checkpoints are stopping people and essentially killing them by denying them entry or registration for relief. Checkpoints are sending families already travelling on foot to places where they have no food, shelter, clean water or sanitation facilities. This a living hell that the Bush Administration has sent these liberated people to. An absolute living hell.
I mean this is just a goddamned shameful mess and the only reason America doesn’t have to pay for it is because the goddamned lazy press is more interested in Anna Nicole’s dead ass than the actual suffering of people who we claim to liberate. This press has no interest in journalism, only entertainment. Let’s not depress anyone with a sad story about the havoc we have sent this region into. No caskets. No cameras at Walter Reed. No placards for the President to read.
Forced evictions from public buildings are common, Pagonis added. Almost half of all displaced people have no access to official food distribution programs, according to U.N. estimates.
Most of those uprooted from their homes come from Baghdad and its surrounding districts. More than 85 percent of the Iraqis displaced within the country have moved to central and southern regions, Pagonis said. She said about 30,000 Iraqis continue to flee each month to Syria, which is now housing 1.4 million Iraqi refugees. Another 750,000 are in Jordan. While Iraq's neighbors are bearing the bulk of the refugee burden, few Iraqis are being welcomed into countries further afield, particularly in Europe, Pagonis said.
The administration of U.S. President George W. Bush said in February that it will allow up to 7,000 Iraqis to permanently settle into the U.S. — up from 202 in 2006 — and will pay more to help Iraq's neighbors cope with the surge of refugees.
UNHCR hopes to find a permanent home for 20,000 Iraqi refugees by the end of the year.
Wow. We send 4 million liberated people fleeing and offer to house 7000. Compassionate Conservatism folks.
Imagine for a second the Hell of walking your family and what precious few items they can carry to another country. This is Katrina but in another country. That's how dangerous these asshats who run our government are. Imagine waking up one day and realizing that your business will never open again and your dead friends will never say goodbye and your wounded friends will never really heal and how there never seem to be any news cameras to see your suffering.
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