Widely Ignored By Press: A 'Surge' in Iraqi Displaced Citizens (Red Crescent Report)

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Widely Ignored By Press: A 'Surge' in Iraqi Displaced Citizens

By E&P Staff

Published: June 18, 2007 10:50 AM ET

NEW YORK The plight -- and massive number -- of refugees and displaced citizens in Iraq has been one of the great under-reported aspects of the war. Perhaps that will change in the wake of a report by the Iraqi Red Crescent today.

The leading humanitarian group in Iraq says the number of internally displaced people (IDP's) in Iraq has quadrupled since January and is up eight times from a year ago.

It had found in May 2006 that there were 125,169. For May 2007 it counts 1,024,430, with 37% of them children. Health care is limited.

"Rape, armed gangs, theft, drug addiction was a common place among IDP, " the report states. "The overall picture is that of a human tragedy unprecedented in Iraq's history."

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