More than 1 million displaced people in Baghdad

[sabra]

Source: Azzaman

One out of four people in the Iraqi capital Baghdad has been displaced due to sectarian violence and ongoing U.S. military operations, according to the Iraqi Red Crescent Society.

The society’s head Saeed Haqi said looking after this huge number was an uphill task and that the U.S. has promised to offer $250 million to help “these internal refugees.”

“There are 1.2 million internally displaced people in Baghdad,” Haqi said.

Children below the age of 15 make up 58 percent of the internally displaced population, he said.

He said Baghdad’s displaced people, who live in squalor conditions, have been promised half a billion dollars including the U.S. contribution.

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He said the U.S. army will handle the U.S. money which will be earmarked mainly for utility projects such as pure water, electricity and schools.



Read more: http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news/2008-01-07/kurd.htm

[ixion]

1. I believe they mean to say 'liberated' rather than displaced

because, you know, that's what we do here at MurikaCo, we liberate people, either from their homes, their belongings, their loved ones or their lives.

[0007]

2. Accordingly, some have the count at 2.3 million

BAGHDAD — Iraq's displaced population has grown to 2.3 million people, the Iraqi Red Crescent Society said Monday on the heels of a warning by another humanitarian group that border tensions are exacerbating the plight of those who fled north to escape sectarian violence.

The Red Crescent report said another 67,000 families left their homes in September, continuing a pattern that has multiplied the number of displaced persons more than fivefold this year.

About two-thirds of the total are children under 12, the Red Crescent said.

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However, the displaced cause a severe drain on public resources and face hardships such as unemployment, poor medical care and inadequate schooling. The Iraqi parliament voted this week to provide a monthly stipend equivalent to $120 to each displaced family.

Abdul-Samad Rahman, Iraq's minister of displacement and migration, disputed the Red Crescent figure which, he said, relied on food-basket registrations as an indicator of displacement. Not all families that change their food-basket addresses are displaced, he said.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/iraq/2003996200_iraq06.html?syndication=rss

[Botany]

3. America's Legacy

1 million + dead
2.25 million have left the country (the educated class)
2.00 million homeless inside Iraq
8 million + w/ out food, water, power, and medical care

[Stuart G]

4. Can you imagine one and one half million homeless in New York City

With some outside force, like an invasion at the root cause? ..How would New Yorkers feel about those that invaded?
...thanks to MR. Bush, that problem is our for a long time................