GENEVA (Reuters) - Hollywood star Angelina Jolie on Tuesday traveled to Iraq and appealed for more international support for the millions of people uprooted by war and violence.
Jolie, who has been to more than 20 countries since becoming a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations refugee agency six years ago, visited a makeshift camp housing 1,200 people in Iraq and spent hours speaking with Iraqis now living in Damascus.
"I have come to Syria and Iraq to help draw attention to this humanitarian crisis and to urge governments to increase their support for UNHCR and its partners," the actress said in a statement released by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
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Some 4.2 million people have fled their homes in Iraq, where violence remains widespread more than four years after U.S.-led forces invaded the country and toppled dictator Saddam Hussein.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/peopleNews/idUSL2852198820070828So my math sucks, but Iraq has a population of something like 27 million, or rather it did have, at the onset of Georgie's Jolly Adventure. Add a million dead to over 2 million who have left the country, (the other 2 million are displaced internally) and you come up with a loss of something lie 11% of the population. And according to experts, it is very, very unlikely that those folks will be returning in the next few decades.
Mind boggling.
In any case, good for Jolie.
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