Uprooted Iraqis move into "atrocious" camps - UN

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Source: Reuters

Uprooted Iraqis move into "atrocious" camps - UN
By Laura MacInnis

GENEVA, June 15 (Reuters) - People fleeing violence in Iraq have begun to move into atrocious makeshift camps on the fringes of cities such as Najaf, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday.

Andrew Harper, coordinator of the UNHCR's Iraq Support Unit, said the sites were a result of certain governorates sealing off their regions to newcomers.

"Camps are one of the worst things you can have, because you are not going to have proper provision of water ... of sewage, of shelter, of security," he said. "They are atrocious."

At one site near the holy Shi'ite city of Najaf, hosting 200 families, people were drinking from a polluted water source and many women were urinating and defecating inside their huts because they were afraid of being attacked outside, he said.

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"The more vulnerable are likely to die," he said.

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What a catastrophe Bush has unleashed on these people.

[Laughing Mirror]

1. Death camps

We are a barbarous nation now.

[jberryhill]

2. "the holy Shi'ite city of Najaf"

Someone call a copy editor, quick. Stumbling over "holy Shi'ite" really breaks the flow there.

If we are displacing all of these people, it would be a good idea to have facilities for refugees.

[Trajan]

3. Another example of a complete lack of foresight ...

by the Neocon ASSHOLES who thought invading and occupying a sovereign nation full of boiling sectaries would be a 'cakewalk' ....

Get your flowers yet, Rumsfeld ? .... How bout you 'Cowlick' Wolfowitz ? ....

Smellin those delicious Roses, Dick Breath ? ... Adelman ? .... Gaffney ? .... Feith ? ... Wurmser ? ... Ledeen ? .... Perle ? ... Kristol ? ....

Fucking assholes ..... They leave nothing but need, want, and suffering in their myopic wake ....

Catastrophe is the perfect description ..... The Iraqis were better off with Saddam ....

This debacle has killed MORE innocents than Saddam ever had .... and more to come yet ....

Despicable ...