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India-Pakistan
834,000 displaced by fighting: UN
2009-05-15
YAR HUSSAIN CAMP: More than 834,000 civilians have fled the recent military operation in the northwest of Pakistan, the UN refugee agency chief said on Thursday. The figure was a leap of more than 163,000 people registered since Wednesday, as families piled onto trucks and tractors, or streamed on foot out of the affected districts to hastily set up camps.

“Some 834,000 internally displaced persons have been registered so far. This is a massive, massive displacement in today’s world,” said UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres.

With more than 1.3 million people displaced, Human Rights Watch has warned that Pakistan is facing its biggest displacement since 1947.
Posted by:Steve White

#3  You know, if Pakistan would just surrender to the Taliban, then the people would be safe (from the Pakistani army), and we would never hear of any casualties caused by the Taliban (murdering slutty women, not-bearded-enough men, and so on) so the way to peace is obviously surrender.
Besides, it is all Bush's fault. He helped arm the Pakistanis.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2009-05-15 22:53  

#2  HRW's motto: Don't Kill The Job.
Posted by: tu3031   2009-05-15 14:39  

#1  I'm a little leary of HRW's numbers. Just take a look at what they're saying in Sri Lanka, in Darfur, and in a dozen or two other places. They were also part of the group claiming 250,000 civilians killed in Iraq a few years ago.

If I were in any of the Tribal Areas, however, I'd be beating feet somewhere else, too.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2009-05-15 14:34  

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