Iraqis abandon homes in new refugee exodus
Independent [UK]
02/01/07
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...
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2204094.ece
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
02/01/07
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...
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2204094.ece
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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