US group warns of crisis of displaced Iraqis30 Jan 2007 01:33:42 GMT
Source: Reuters
-snip-By Sue Pleming
WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - More than half a million people have fled their homes
in Baghdad in the last year due to sectarian violence and a million more could be
forced out by mid-year, a U.S. medical charity said on Monday.
California-based International Medical Corps (IMC), which has more than 300 staff in
Iraq, said the pace of people displaced was rising at a "dramatic rate", particularly
in the capital, which has a population of about 6 million.
"It is a very tough situation. There is a terrible security situation there with an
increasing number of people who are displaced," said Nancy Aossey, president of the
group.
-snip-She said if the violence continued at its current rate, more than a million more people
would leave their homes in Baghdad within the next six months, with most of them staying
inside Iraq rather than going out of the country.
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