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The repercussions...
Civil war had forced a staggering 51 million people worldwide to leave home by the end of 2013, according to the United Nations, and that was before they started fleeing Iraq in droves last week as fighters from a Sunni extremist group swept through the north.
According to the United Nations annual report released Friday, most of the forcibly displaced worldwide are homeless in their own countries and are known as internally displaced persons. An additional 16.7 million people are refugees in another land.
Astonishingly, half are children.
Although the refugee numbers were higher after the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, what distinguishes this report is the sharp increase in the ranks of the internally displaced since their numbers began to be tallied about 20 years ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/21/wo...-war.html?_r=0
According to the United Nations annual report released Friday, most of the forcibly displaced worldwide are homeless in their own countries and are known as internally displaced persons. An additional 16.7 million people are refugees in another land.
Astonishingly, half are children.
Although the refugee numbers were higher after the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, what distinguishes this report is the sharp increase in the ranks of the internally displaced since their numbers began to be tallied about 20 years ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/21/wo...-war.html?_r=0
We're also dealing with unprecedented civilian numbers since WW2...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5514414.html
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