Four Million Iraqis on the Run
By PATRICK COCKBURN
Sulaymaniyah
Two thousand Iraqis are fleeing their homes every day. It is the
greatest mass exodus of people ever in the Middle East and dwarfs
anything seen in Europe since the Second World War. Four million
people,one in seven Iraqis, have run away, because if they do not they will be
killed. Two million have left Iraq, mainly for Syria and Jordan, and the
same number have fled within the country.
Yet, while the US and Britain express sympathy for the plight of
refugees in Africa, they are ignoring - or playing down- a far greater
tragedy which is largely of their own making.
The US and Britain may not want to dwell on the disasters that have
befallen Iraq during their occupation but the shanty towns crammed with
refugees springing up in Iraq and neighbouring countries are becoming
impossible to ignore.
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Now my question is do you think somebody in our government should be held responsible for the mess they have caused in the Middle East. If nobody is held responsible then we are nothing but a Rogue Nation disguised as a functioning democracy.
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