neurotic Iraqi wife
October 05, 2006
Iraqis on the Run...
A sad article on Electronic Iraq about the displacement and migration of Iraqis. I personally believe that the numbers are much higher.
Iraqis on the run...
Jeff Severns Guntzel, Electronic Iraq, 4 October 2006
The International Organization on Migration (IOM) has released more data on internal displacement in Iraq reporting that an average of 9,000 people are being displaced weekly, with 190,000 Iraqis displaced in central and southern Iraq since the bombing in Samarra in February.The organization says "the displacement is increasingly looking like permanent settlement and there is urgent need for shelter and employment solutions for these families."According to an IOM statement on the matter:
"Although host communities are welcoming the displaced who usually are from the same religious community, there is nevertheless a limited amount of shelter available and very few opportunities to earn money. The vast majority of those displaced this year are not planning to return to their former homes. If this is not to become a chronic humanitarian crisis, we need to put in place livelihood and integration programs in addition to providing emergency assistance such as food and water," said IOM Chief of Mission for Iraq, Rafiq Tschannen.
Reasons for displacement are similar throughout the country. People are being threatened because of their religious orientation by direct threats to life, or because of abductions and assassinations taking place around them for the same reason.
Read Rest of Article here.
Iraqis on the run...
Jeff Severns Guntzel, Electronic Iraq, 4 October 2006
The International Organization on Migration (IOM) has released more data on internal displacement in Iraq reporting that an average of 9,000 people are being displaced weekly, with 190,000 Iraqis displaced in central and southern Iraq since the bombing in Samarra in February.The organization says "the displacement is increasingly looking like permanent settlement and there is urgent need for shelter and employment solutions for these families."According to an IOM statement on the matter:
"Although host communities are welcoming the displaced who usually are from the same religious community, there is nevertheless a limited amount of shelter available and very few opportunities to earn money. The vast majority of those displaced this year are not planning to return to their former homes. If this is not to become a chronic humanitarian crisis, we need to put in place livelihood and integration programs in addition to providing emergency assistance such as food and water," said IOM Chief of Mission for Iraq, Rafiq Tschannen.
Reasons for displacement are similar throughout the country. People are being threatened because of their religious orientation by direct threats to life, or because of abductions and assassinations taking place around them for the same reason.
Read Rest of Article here.
7 Comments:
I used to believe that these reports were myths until I saw my own aunt forced out of her own home, where she lived for decades. Says who Baghdad must be divided according to sects and ethnicities. This is all just mad!!
Not myths, my relatives left Iraq couple of weeks ago, and there are more to follow in the coming weeks.
Many of them want to leave the country, but they don't know where to go and what they will do next!!!
Hi Chikitita. Its sad but true. People used to live with each other for decades upon decades. Muslims, shia's, sunni's Christians, Jews. But all that has come to an end. The corrupt gov that we have and their militias have taken over. I read on the net that the PM has said all militias will be dismantled. Yeah right, fat chance!!! I will have to see it to believe it, either that or he himself will get killed.
Mixmax, ihna sirna kikha. There are countries who are willing to host Iraqis for a while, but until when. Imagine leaving your house, your belongings that you have had from generations ago. The people who can afford it have left already, the rest are selling everything to be able to leave. My cousin is one. He is selling everything he owns, from house to land so he can go to Jordan. Iraq has gone. There is no more Iraq. And if there is, then its only for those criminals. I really hope, that something soon will happen that will change all this. Il nas are exhausted they have suffered enough!!!
you give me the impression that you are hoping for a miracle!
Talking of poeple leaving everything and flee the country... aaah.... it remind me of someone I know!!
I don't want to sound pissimistic, but I also praying for a miracle!
mixmax, yes i am hoping for a miracle, for miracle is the only thing I can think of right now. There is no right solution to the tragedy of Iraq. If the forces leave, blood upon blood will be spilled. If they stay, again blood upon blood will be spilled. Blood has already spilt and is filling the streets. What solution other than a miracle can stop this???
The miracle lies within Iraqi laymen, once they wake up things will get better.
Neurotic Iraqi Wife, you are asking what other than a miracle can stop this? exactly, there is none, it will continue and continue...
For God's sake, do you know that there are people from different cultures and religions saying that this must continue because good will come at the end!!!! and some are saying that this is the fate of humankind and that no stop will be seen in the near future unless their saviour arisen!!
There is a war going on, yes, a religious war, NIW, but any smart person knows that it is not among religions rather than between extremists, fanatics, fundimentalists: Bush and his oil mafia is calling for his own Jihad, Bin Laden and his cave-reptiles is calling for their own version of Crusades. Israel and Iran are doing their best to get the best benefit of all that, and Iraqis in the middle (they have been always in the middle, under the cross-fire, since the rat of Tikrit, Saddam's time). Iraqis in the middle, some of them takes that side, the other is taking someone else's side, and who is not siding with anyone, should shut up and remain at home. Oh, no, who is not siding with anyone, SHOULD LEAVE HIS HOUSE... NO, SHOULD LEAVE THE COUNTRY.
This is the situation. I remember a friend once saying about: When your house needs cleaning, a lot of cleaning, better you focus on cleaning that house of yours before blaming anyone from the outside, even those from the outside try their best to impose their opinion on you.
I GUESS I ANSWERED YOUR QUESTION, or not?
I am not blaming the Iraqis 100% here, I think you know what I mean
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