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The unknown international humanitarian crisis

By Mark Bahnisch on January 10, 2007

For reasons that are very obvious, there’s been very little reporting of the internal and external displacement of Iraqi refugees.

The UNHCR is launching an appeal:

UNHCR and its partners estimate that out of a total population of 26 million, some 1.7 million Iraqis are displaced internally and up to 2 million have fled to nearby countries.

While many were displaced before 2003, increasing numbers of Iraqis are now fleeing escalating sectarian, ethnic and gene ralized violence.

In 2006 alone, UNHCR estimates that nearly 5,00,000 Iraqis fled to other areas inside the country and that 40,000 to 50,000 continue to flee their homes every month. Planning figures under the latest appeal are for up to 2.3 million IDPs by the end of this year.

Shamefully, the US suspended its Iraqi refugee intake after s11, and didn’t restart it until 2005. But the US plans only to resettle 500 Iraqi refugees in 2007.

John Quiggin blogs on a request from an American journalist seeking information on the possibility of resettling Iraqi refugees in Australia. See his post for details. You’d hope that possibility exists, since we’ve been there since 2003, even if our “mission” at the moment appears to be transparently political in character, as Tim Dunlop observers.

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  1. leftvegdrunk
    leftvegdrunk
    January 10, 2007 at 7:56 pm |

    Yep, it’s about time this issue was given some attention.

    And you can read about other under-reported humanitarian crises by clicking here.

  2. wbb
    wbb
    January 10, 2007 at 8:47 pm |

    Australia allow in refugees?

  3. Christine Keeler
    Christine Keeler
    January 11, 2007 at 12:23 am |

    The possibility of millions of Iraq refugees was comprehensively disproved by Andrew Bolt back in 2003:

    Let’s start with Brown’s warning on the ABC’s Insiders program last September that “there may be hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties in Iraq”.

    Well, that proved false, didn’t it? The true civilian death toll seems fewer than perhaps 3000. Tragic, but it’s still fewer than an average month’s violent deaths under Saddam. So let’s have an inquiry into that bit of disgraceful scaremongering.

    Let’s also investigate the claims promoted by his fellow Greens Senator, Kerry Nettle, when she hosted the launch in Parliament House last November of a report by the Medical Association for Prevention of War.

    This report, treated by the media with great respect, said the war in Iraq was “likely to result in between 48,000 and 260,000 deaths”, and perhaps “millions of refugees and displaced people”, as well as “famine and epidemics”.

    Each of those predictions has been proved utterly wrong. In fact, instead of creating millions of refugees, the war achieved the opposite — refugees are returning to freed Iraq.

    So were these claims, endorsed by the Greens, another example of “political dishonesty”? Were they “exaggerated and, in some cases, fabricated”?

    http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/31892/20031218/timblair.spleenville.com/archives/002923.html

    It’s about time you realised the punditorship is always right about everything all the time. Stop your pathetic whining.

  4. wbb
    wbb
    January 11, 2007 at 1:03 am |

    Is there anything that Andrew hasn’t nailed from day one yet? He disproved Climate change. He knew Iraq would be a cake-walk. He’s not Oz’s highest paid journo for nothing.

  5. MarkL
    MarkL
    January 12, 2007 at 12:59 pm |

    I suspect this link will terminate this thread, because you cannot blame the US for the issue, which is rooted in teh religious intolerance and general 7th century barbarity of islam.

    Oh, and because it is the Christians who are being subjected to ethnic cleansing, and we know how compassionate the Australian left is towards THEM.

    MarkL
    canberra

  6. Mark
    Mark
    January 12, 2007 at 1:04 pm |

    You must have missed this, MarkL:

    http://larvatusprodeo.net/2006/10/18/iraqs-unmentionable-religious-conflict/

  7. Madam Anthony's House of Rhetorical Fetishes
    Madam Anthony's House of Rhetorical Fetishes
    January 12, 2007 at 1:24 pm |

    Ha! HA! I thrill at the suffering of Christians! Ha HA! HA!

    Yes that’s right money on the dresser, you can get dressed now.