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azinorum -> 100,000 fleeing Iraq every month! (1/10/2007 7:15:15 AM)

I was looking for figures and estimates to give us a better idea about Iraqis that have fled since the invasion. Its terribly sad to think that if things don't improve we won't have enough doctors, engineers and other proffesionals left to help in the rebuilding of our country. Lose of these essential human resources is the biggest long term tragedy for Iraq. The below report was taked from the BBC news website. Regards Azinorum



Iraq's migrants from violence
By David Loyn
Developing world correspondent, BBC News
 
The true scale of the refugee exodus from Iraq is impossible to calculate, but the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) says that during some periods this year it has run as high as 100,000 a month.
 
This is the biggest movement across borders in the world at the moment.

Iraqis form the largest group among asylum seekers reaching Europe, and are putting huge pressure on their neighbours - particularly Jordan and Syria.

The numbers fleeing abroad went up significantly after the destruction of the golden-domed mosque in Samarra in February.

Whoever caused this outrage, it had the effect of sparking the worst round of sectarian violence that Iraq has seen.

In a small flat in a poor area in Amman in Jordan, I met Raad Ibrahim. He is a Sunni, but his wife is Shia.
Like much of Baghdad their home was in a place where such distinctions have never mattered until now.
 
Dangerous journey

Raad said that they left Iraq after Shia militias came threatening to shoot him if he did not hand over his house.

He had already lost his car showroom to the Americans, and had other business interests commandeered by militant groups.

To make the journey to Jordan, he and his family drove overland, a perilous journey across the huge wasteland of the desert in Anbar province.

Many refugees have not even made it as far as the border since cars and buses are routinely targeted on the road.

But those who run have weighed the risks and judged that even the dangers of this road are not as bad as staying in Baghdad.

Apart from the daily threats from militias, and the increasing sectarian conflict, kidnapping has now become commonplace.

There are some reports suggesting that kidnapping is now a self-financing criminal activity, and many of those involved have no contact with the insurgency.

Even those who are insurgents see kidnapping as a commercial activity, designed to support their militant activities.

One kidnap victim, who agreed to talk to the BBC providing we guaranteed to protect his anonymity, said that some of the gang holding him were religious extremists supporting al-Qaeda, and others were Saddam supporters.

This is further confirmation that the Sunni insurgency has formed alliances between these two groups.
But they made it clear that the aim of the kidnap was to raise funds for the insurgency.

The man was not rich, and said that his family would never be able to pay the $40,000 (£20,000) demanded.

During the days that he negotiated the figure down to something his family might be able to pay, the kidnappers at one point suggested that he might like the "honour" of becoming a suicide bomber, although he was a Shia, and this would have meant blowing up Shias.

"They said if God wants to guide you, you can sit in a car, and do the operation. It would feel just like a pinprick."
 
Death list

With mass kidnappings now an increasing feature of the conflict, particularly from the Shia side, the sectarian militias and insurgents who now have the upper hand in Baghdad have become increasingly bold.
They are also carrying out more targeted assassinations.

In Jordan I met an Iraqi doctor, who was also unwilling to give his name.
He said that he had always wanted to stay in Iraq, and stayed even after his daughter was injured when a suicide bomber killed himself near her school.

Some of her classmates were killed.

The incident that pushed the doctor into taking the decision to go was when his name appeared on a list of people who were targets for assassination.

He said that now was not a time to make a stand since he would be likely to die.

"Losing a life, being a hero at this time is wrong. It is not a time to be shot by a silly bullet or shell."

Key citizens

Shortly after he arrived in Jordan, I asked him for his impressions of what is happening to Iraq.
"It's the worst that can happen to any nation. It's very surprising how the people changed in those three years.

"We used to live as neighbours all together -Sunni, Shia, Christian - and suddenly this sectarianism came out of I don't know where."

The problem for Iraq is that the more of its key citizens that it loses - doctors, teachers, business people - the worse it will become for those who remain.



al ani -> RE: 100,000 fleeing Iraq every month! (1/10/2007 8:01:01 AM)

A: azinorem

It is very hard subject,and i hope the iraqi people will read this message very carefully and change this case by:
1-refusing  to go abroad and change the place inside the country when they are obliged.
2-broadcast these things in TVs, media and newspaper.
3- I hope that the transformation of Alsadr militery into normal association will reduce those crimes.
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azinorum -> RE: 100,000 fleeing Iraq every month! (1/10/2007 8:22:13 AM)

All your suggestions would help if they were workable.

The problem lies with security. If you can't offer Iraqi professionals some kind of security and pay them properly they'll continue to look for better opportunities elsewhere. They have to think about their family first because the government isn't offering them any incentive to stay.

I also blame the media for not paying more attention to this mass exodus. It needs to be highlighted rather than concentrating on only the short term concerns.

Not only Sadr but also Badr and other Militias have to be disbanded. I'm not sure if I agree that Sadr should be allowed anywhere near the Iraqi political arena. Better if he and his cronies are pushed to the sidelines altogether. I don't trust this idiot and his advisor's to allow the process to take its proper course. They will always object to things purely on sectarian and religious grounds.



azinorum -> RE: 100,000 fleeing Iraq every month! (1/10/2007 8:33:01 AM)

Al Ani: Are you sure you want this moron to be involved in the political process? He is a true measure of how much we've regressed since the occupation in 2003. Watch the video's and see how stupid he is. Sorry not in English as laguages are not Muqtada's strong point.[:D]

Muqtada Al-Sadr shares his views on footbal : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F-7xdtq4cE

 
Muqtada Al-Sadr shouts at his followers during a Friday prayer sermon at Kufa. He calls them 'ignorant' 3 times: * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VqvFXCAepI



sadiq2006 -> RE: 100,000 fleeing Iraq every month! (1/10/2007 3:20:03 PM)

do you think these people care.



al ani -> RE: 100,000 fleeing Iraq every month! (1/10/2007 3:22:07 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: azinorum

Al Ani: Are you sure you want this moron to be involved in the political process? 
Mr Azinorem :Indeed no it is not ,better to stay in mosque.



azinorum -> RE: 100,000 fleeing Iraq every month! (1/11/2007 7:44:43 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: al ani

quote:

ORIGINAL: azinorum
Mr Azinorem :Indeed no it is not ,better to stay in mosque.


Yes, and better if that mosque was in Tehran!



al ani -> RE: 100,000 fleeing Iraq every month! (1/11/2007 2:59:58 PM)

sure mr Azinorem or far away in the eastren side of iran



sadiq2006 -> RE: 100,000 fleeing Iraq every month! (1/11/2007 3:20:56 PM)

moqtada al sadder is so discusting selfish and crazy, god i hate him.



azinorum -> RE: 100,000 fleeing Iraq every month! (1/12/2007 7:33:12 AM)

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ORIGINAL: sadiq2006

moqtada al sadder is so discusting selfish and crazy, god i hate him.


I don't think Muqtada "Habibi" Al Sadr has many supporters on these forums. His Mehdi Hawasim Army are too stoned most of the time so I doubt if they'd be interested in discussing their opinions on Forums. They might if they could read.[:D]



azinorum -> RE: 100,000 fleeing Iraq every month! (1/12/2007 4:53:17 PM)

The reason I started this topic was to highlight how thousands of intellectuals and midlevel administrators have been assassinated since the occupation. This is definitely a premeditated campaign against Iraq's professional class and it's a big operation, maybe even a movement. By silencing educated professionals, the Militias are waging war on any chance for Iraq to progress. The dead include doctors, engineers, teachers, lawyers and judges. These are the professionals who will provide the necessary foundation to run the basic institutions and keep basic services running. By removing them the criminal Militias are aiming to eliminate all support for a democratic society, making it more likely that a dictator will return, or Iraq will become a theocracy like Iran. The Militias that are responsible for these murders and are being guided by a higher authority. The first step that has to be taken is to disband the Militias using extreme force if necessary. Deep down I don’t believe anything Maliki and Co say but when they start talking about taking affirmative action against the Militias I want to give them every chance to prove me wrong. If he and the Americans manage to get to the core of the Militia forces and kick them out of Baghdad it would be a great first step to establishing security in the capital. I realize I’m being very optimistic but it would be great if I was proved wrong.



sadiq2006 -> RE: 100,000 fleeing Iraq every month! (1/14/2007 3:28:11 PM)

these people that you mentioned they will never never never ever listen and they even do not know how to read english language.



azinorum -> RE: 100,000 fleeing Iraq every month! (1/15/2007 2:59:22 AM)

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ORIGINAL: sadiq2006

these people that you mentioned they will never never never ever listen and they even do not know how to read english language.


Yes they prefer reading books with lots of pictures! The less text the better.



azinorum -> RE: 100,000 fleeing Iraq every month! (1/23/2007 2:49:36 AM)

The Iraqi refugee problem is reaching a critical phase according to UNHCR. The figures are as follows:

In Syria: 1,000,000In Jordan: 700,000In Egypt: 20,000-80,000 (estimate)In Lebanon: 40,000Internally displaced: 1,700,000 
This is the latest report from the BBC. Regards Azinorum

Warnings of Iraq refugee crisis Monday, 22 January 2007 - BBC NEWS Aid workers have warned of a growing crisis for refugees who have fled Iraq.  A humanitarian spokesman told the BBC that neighbouring countries where most Iraqis have fled to are closing their doors "one by one" to Iraqis.
 
About 2m Iraqis live in increasingly difficult conditions in countries like Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon.
The rest of the world has almost completely ignored the problem and the crisis is coming to a head, spokesman Kasaram Mufarah said.

"Most of the borders of the neighbouring countries of Iraq are very difficult to pass," Mr Kasaram, who co-ordinates the work of aid agencies in Iraq, said.
 
"And the western countries are becoming more and more difficult, so it seems that the doors are closing one by one around the world on the face of Iraqis."
 
The BBC's Jon Leyne says Jordan is severely restricting the number of refugees it is letting in. This is partly for security reasons and partly because the country is already dealing with nearly one million Iraqi refugees. There is little or no money allocated and Britain and the United States only accept a tiny number of Iraqis seeking political asylum or resettlement.
 
Appeal
 
Earlier this month, the UN refugee body appealed for $60m (£30.8m, 45m euros) in emergency aid for those fleeing the violence in Iraq - the largest long-term displacement of people since the uprooting of Palestinians during the creation of Israel in 1948.
 
The UNHCR says about 12% of Iraqis have fled their homes due to the violence that has spread through the country since the 2003 US-led invasion. Many refugees live in conditions of acute poverty. In Syria, almost a third of Iraqi refugee children do not go to school.
 
The UN says that there is growing evidence of women turning to prostitution. In addition to refugees, the UN estimates 1.7 million live within Iraq's borders as displaced people, a number that could reach 2.7m by the end of 2007.



azinorum -> RE: 100,000 fleeing Iraq every month! (2/2/2007 4:02:27 AM)

Latest about the new Iraqi refugee crisis:

Iraqis abandon their homes in Middle East's new refugee exodus
By Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad - 01 February 2007 - The Independant

Iraq is experiencing the biggest exodus in the Middle East since Palestinians were forced to flee in 1948 upon the creation of Israel.

"We were forced to leave our house six months ago and since then we have moved more than eight times," said Abu Mustafa, a 56-year-old man from Baghdad. "Sectarian violence has now even reached the displacement camps but we are tired of running away. Sometimes I have asked myself if it is not better to die than to live like a Bedouin all my life."

Iraqis are on the run inside and outside the country. The United Nations High Commission for Refugees said 50,000 Iraqis a month are abandoning their homes. Stephanie Jaquemet, regional representative of the UNHCR, said that two million Iraqis have fled abroad and another 1.5-2 million are displaced within the country - many of them from before the fall of Saddam Hussein.

They flee because they fear for their lives. Some 3,000 Iraqis are being killed every month according to the UN. Most come from Baghdad and the centre of the country, but all of Iraq outside the three Kurdish provinces in the north is extremely violent. A detailed survey by the International Organisation for Migration on displacement within Iraq said that most people move after direct threats to their lives: "These threats take the form of abductions; assassinations of individuals or their families."

There are fewer mixed areas left in Iraq. In Baghdad, militias now feel free to use mortars to bombard each other knowing that they will not hit members of their own community. Shia and Sunni both regard themselves as victims responding to provocation.

The most common destinations are Jordan and Syria which have taken 1.6 million people. At first it was the better-off who fled, including half of Iraq's 34,000 doctors. Now it is the poor who are arriving in Amman and Damascus with little means of surviving.

Only Syria has formally recognised a need for temporary protection for Iraqis. Others, including the US and UK, are loath to admit that one of the world's great man-made disasters is taking place. The UNHCR thinks every Iraqi should qualify as a refugee because of the extraordinary level of violence in the country. "This is the fastest-growing refugee crisis in the world," Kenneth Bacon, president of Refugees International told the US Senate Judiciary Committee.

Some do not run fast enough. Ali, a Shia businessman who also had a job with the government, was slow to abandon his fine house in a Sunni part of west Baghdad. One day he was picked up by a gang, whipped and only released when he had handed over all his money. "The kidnappers told me to leave the country," he said."

But not all succeed in getting out of the country. The land routes to Jordan and Syria run through Sunni territory. Shia trying to reach safety have been taken from their vehicles to be shot by the side of the road. But Shia can move to safety in south Iraq and therefore make up the bulk of the internally displaced.

For Sunni there is no real place of safety in Iraq. In Baghdad they are being squeezed into smaller and smaller areas. Cities like Ramadi and Fallujah are partly ruined and very dangerous. Mohammed Sahib Ali, 48, a government employee, was forced out of the al-Hurriyah area by Shia militiamen. A Sunni, he took refuge in a school in Salah ad-Din province. "We are dying here," said Ali. "Not enough food, not enough medicines. I can't go to work and my three sons can't attend their classes. We don't know what to do."



azinorum -> RE: 100,000 fleeing Iraq every month! (3/15/2007 8:08:55 PM)

Came across this report on the BBC and couldn't find a post relevant to the subject matter so I had to dig out this old thread. Given that I am in self exile in Jordan I found the report to be interesting and obviously relevant, to me at least.

Iraqi exiles in deportation fear
BBC NEWS ONLINE - 15 March, 2007
 
Iraqis are living in fear of deportation from Jordan as it struggles with a massive influx of refugees.
 
They talk about the notorious white vans - police vans that patrol the streets of the Jordanian capital, picking up Iraqis who are here illegally, and sending them back home to Iraq and a very uncertain fate. Like almost everything to do with Iraqi exiles in Jordan, it is the subject of much rumour, and very few hard facts. So I set out to find the truth for myself.
 
Nobody knows exactly how many Iraqi exiles, or refugees, there are in Jordan. It could be anything up to a million. With similar numbers in neighbouring Syria, it is the largest refugee exodus in the Middle East for half a century - one of the biggest flows of refugees anywhere since the World War II. But it is an invisible exodus. There are no refugee camps. Unless you know where to look, you will not spot crowds of Iraqis in Jordan. This small country, sandwiched in the middle of this troubled region, has taken in the Iraqis largely without complaint. It is a huge burden for a country of barely five million people. Jordan has earned widespread praise. The rest of the world has given virtually no help at all. Now, four years after the American-led invasion of Iraq and with no sign of peace being restored, the strain is beginning to show.
 
Daily struggle
Officially, most Iraqis in Jordan are illegal immigrants who have overstayed their residency. They are not given work permits. Sending their children to school is difficult. Healthcare is patchy. Just surviving is getting more and more difficult as life savings are drained. Adil and his family used to be successful professionals in Iraq. Adil worked as an interpreter for the British army in Basra. His wife Suham is an engineer who worked for foreign charities in Iraq. They fled a few months ago after receiving death threats. Now they survive in a squalid flat down a dark alley in downtown Amman.
 
Suham described the nice house they used to live in, in Iraq, with its smart furniture, the car she used to drive. And she apologised that she could not even afford to give us a slice of cake with the coffee she kindly brought out, as she would have done in Iraq. Their son Fahad cannot complete his studies. He sits at home watching television or playing video games. Even going out of the house he said he has to be careful in case he is picked up by the police and sent back to Iraq.
 
"That's my biggest fear," he told me. "I can't be out late, because the police will take me to Iraq.
 
"My friend Alaa is a painter. He was stopped by the police and asked for his ID. Because he didn't have any, they took him to the Amman police centre, then after a week they took him back to Iraq. I don't know if he is dead or alive."
 
Climate of fear
Jody Miller is an American evangelical pastor who has lived and worked amongst the Iraqis in a poor area of east Amman for years. He described the mood among the Iraqis he meets every day: "They live in daily fear, and it actually results in health issues, because of the constant daily stress that they are under," he said. And he added: "Everywhere they go they live in fear of being picked up and deported.
 
"They go to the bus station and see a police van loading Iraqis into the van and they are stricken with fear.
 
"That word spreads through the whole community and the whole community is in fear.
 
"And in the short term it does drive some of the Iraqis out. It does have a short term effect of controlling some of the numbers."
 
Mr Miller described how a young Iraqi friend of his was picked up by the police, and sent back to Iraq at short notice. He said that in Iraq, his friend was picked up by insurgents, tortured with a drill, and killed.
Through an Iraqi friend of mine in Amman I was introduced to a taxi driver, who regularly drives between Amman and Baghdad. He said he has seen for himself a Jordanian police bus that comes to the border every Wednesday, expelling Iraqis back into Iraq.
 
Sometimes there are only five Iraqis on board, sometimes up to 40. "I've seen the bus," the taxi driver told me. "There are security men on board. The Iraqis are chained together in pairs. It's obvious what is going on."
 
There may not be huge numbers of Iraqis being expelled, but the fear is widespread. The Jordanian government denies there is a policy of deportations. This is a country shaped, indeed traumatised over the decades, by successive waves of Palestinian refugees. Jordan is proud of its reputation as a safe haven but it is very wary of another permanent influx of hundreds of thousands of new refugees.
 
Jordan's elder statesman, Prince Hassan, put it succinctly: "The concern about any refugee crisis," he explained, "is that you always say these are temporary conditions. But how temporary is temporary?"
Rob Breen is head of the office of the UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, in Jordan. He detailed Jordan's concerns: "The Jordanian authorities are genuinely and understandably concerned about their own national security.
 
"Secondly, there are serious concerns for the social fabric of the country.
 
"To have another 15% of the population remain here on a permanent basis is not acceptable, and would not be acceptable for any state."
 
Mixed messages
Jordan continues to send mixed signals to its Iraqi guests, welcoming them sometimes, but ensuring the welcome is not too warm. The world sends even more mixed messages. While the United States spends billions of dollars a month on the war in Iraq, the UNHCR budget for the refugee issue for the whole region is only $60bn this year - and that is more than twice what it was last year. Washington has just announced it will accept 7,000 Iraqis for resettlement - up from the few hundred accepted since 2003 - but still a tiny fraction of the total. Britain takes in virtually none.
 
To date, it has suited Jordan and its allies to play down the problem. The refugee exodus has gone remarkably smoothly, a tribute to Jordanian hospitality. Most Iraqis, despite their problems, are deeply grateful for the safe haven they have received in Jordan. And with no end in sight to the crisis, the Iraqi exiles, refugees really, will probably be making their home here for some time to come.
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/6446753.stm



sadiq2006 -> RE: 100,000 fleeing Iraq every month! (3/16/2007 7:19:50 AM)

i am not surprised that this thing is happening to iraq all because of the stupid basterd oil.



Calm -> RE: 100,000 fleeing Iraq every month! (3/16/2007 10:54:37 PM)

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ORIGINAL: sadiq2006

i am not surprised that this thing is happening to iraq all because of the stupid basterd oil.


How can you get a stupid **** oil??????? Did you come out with this after an hour of deep thinking????

I have written to both leaders of the Liberal Dems and the Conservatives Parties in Britain about the situation of the refugees.  And guess what? no one answered my emails, maybe its an issue that will not win them votes.  Therefore, my next letter will go to the Pope, and maybe the general sec of the united nation.

Being a politician, married to one as well, I will try all avenues.  Maybe if we all write, someone somewhere will listen.



azinorum -> RE: 100,000 fleeing Iraq every month! (3/17/2007 3:51:23 AM)

Hi Calm: The International Red Cross is one of the only organizations trying to face and tackle this crisis. I for one am very disappointed by the British response. The UK has failed to provide any support to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees or to Syria and Jordan, two countries struggling to cope with a huge influx of refugees from Iraq. It has also failed to provide any coherent programme for resettling Iraqi refugees on its own territory.

Here is a quote from Reuters:

During the 12 months to September last year, only 55 out of 780 asylum seekers were granted "some form of asylum", according to Porteous. Finally, he argues that Britain fails to realise how short-sighted its policy is. Afghanistan, Somalia and Sudan are just of few examples of countries where refugee flows have added to already severe regional instability.

The surprising development is that the United States has taken a small step in the right direction: It is planning to set up a programme that will resettle 7,000 Iraqis in the States this year. It doesn't sound much and it's not, but it's a start and Britain should do the same. However, embarrassingly for Britain and the U.S., Sweden, which doesn't even have troops in Iraq, hosts some 90,000 Iraqi refugees, according to the European Council on Refugees and Exiles. Sweden has taken on more than 11,000 Iraqi refugees since 2005. Britain and of course the USA, should both be taking a major lead in relocating Iraqi refugees to at least repair their damaged reputation amongst the Arab and International community. Shame on them! I would have expected more from the Brits.

Any lobbying of MP's will at least bring the crisis to their attention and hopefully you might find an MP willing to take on this cause and open the subject on the floor at the House of Commons (George Gallaway perhaps?). I hope you and your wife can do something to help because the crisis is reaching epidemic proportions. I have also written to Pelham for help (the Liberal MP who used to live next door to us in Baghdad).

Below is the IRC website where people can donate or volunteer their services. Regards Azinorum 

THE INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS
URL: http://www.theirc.org/what/iraqi-refugees.html?gclid=CPaUr82x-4oCFT4GQgodI1RyKQ



sadiq2006 -> RE: 100,000 fleeing Iraq every month! (3/17/2007 1:26:03 PM)

mr. calm who will listen ?



azinorum -> RE: 100,000 fleeing Iraq every month! (3/19/2007 2:32:45 PM)

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ORIGINAL: sadiq2006
mr. calm who will listen ?


Sadiq if you don't speak then no one will listen or we could say "its better to listen in order to understand than to listen in order to reply"  [sm=smiley14.gif] or perhaps it would be better to say “Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds". [;)] or better still “No one is as deaf as the man who will not listen.” [sm=smiley2.gif]

Now do you understand what I am saying? I'm sure you do!



sadiq2006 -> RE: 100,000 fleeing Iraq every month! (3/19/2007 4:55:33 PM)

calm

i hope you try your very best.



azinorum -> RE: 100,000 fleeing Iraq every month! (3/20/2007 11:40:47 AM)

This massive problem is finally receiving the coverage it deserves. 2m Iraqis outside of Iraq and 1.9 million are now homeless because of the war. This is a huge humanitarian crisis and must be addressed before it goes beyond the point of no return. Can you imagine there are 4 million Iraqis who are homeless or have been forced to leave their homes. To give you an idea of the scale of this problem the Jordanian population in 2003 was 4.5 million. Its a human tragedy on a massive scale.    

World 'ignoring Iraqi refugees' BBC News - 20th March 2007 The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) says there has been an "abject denial" around the world of the humanitarian impact of invading Iraq. 
The UN faces an enormous task in helping countries such as Jordan and Syria cope with the huge influx of Iraqi refugees, a spokesman said. He said the international community had to step in to help address their food, health and education needs. Syria says it is home to 1.2m Iraqi refugees, with up to 800,000 in Jordan. Damascus has repeatedly called for help to deal with the problem.
 
"There has been an abject denial of the impact, the humanitarian impact, of the war, the huge displacement within Iraq of up to 1.9 million people who are homeless because of the war, and those people who are homeless and never got back to the homes after Saddam Hussein was overthrown," UNHCR spokesman Peter Kessler said. Many of the refugees need considerable support, and about a quarter of them are children who need education. Many need food and healthcare, some need counselling because of the violence they have experienced or witnessed, while others need jobs.
 
"There's a need for governments to come in and address the health, the education, all the needs," Mr Kessler said.
 
"Food aid needs as well are becoming vital because the population is becoming further and further impoverished since they cannot work.
 
"So clearly in every area, there's a need to support what the main host governments are doing and then to gird ourselves for what could be, if the war is prolonged, an increasing movement further westwards."
 
Displaced inside Iraq
 
On top of that, almost two million more people are displaced inside Iraq - people who have fled their homes to escape the violence. That number, too, is steadily growing, the UN says, with some provinces feeling overwhelmed and attempting to close their boundaries to refugees from other areas.
Many Sunni Arab and Shia people have been forced to flee from mixed areas to districts where their respective communities are in the majority.
 
A number of Arab Iraqis have moved to the autonomous Kurdish area in the north, where the security problems are less severe. Most of the people killed in Iraq's violence are men. Their deaths leave households headed by women who struggle to survive the loss of the main breadwinner, says the BBC's Jill McGivering. The public distribution system within Iraq is no longer providing a safety net for these people in the way it used to. All these factors encourage the flow of people into other countries.
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6470425.stm



Mout Ahmar -> RE: 100,000 fleeing Iraq every month! (3/20/2007 5:12:03 PM)

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ORIGINAL: azinorum

This massive problem is finally receiving the coverage it deserves. 2m Iraqis outside of Iraq and 1.9 million are now homeless because of the war. This is a huge humanitarian crisis and must be addressed before it goes beyond the point of no return. Can you imagine there are 4 million Iraqis who are homeless or have been forced to leave their homes. To give you an idea of the scale of this problem the Jordanian population in 2003 was 4.5 million. Its a human tragedy on a massive scale.



in finland we call this reporters V and T. they only go for the reports that will sell the newspaper and for 5 hrs a day they are siting in bars drinking vodka and tonic - V and T. this numbers r very big and it will become worse if the europe and usa do nothing to help. jordan need help becase all the hospitals are not enough, all the jobs are not enough. it is a big problem and some one must do something now.



sadiq2006 -> RE: 100,000 fleeing Iraq every month! (3/20/2007 5:26:38 PM)

did you forget at the days of saddam hussain 5 millions iraqis left iraq add them and it will be 8 million.



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