Thursday, October 30, 2014

Displaced Iraqis face new threats as winter approaches - News from UN Oct 26, 2014

From:  Messengers of Humanity from UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
     Trapped in their homes and villages for many weeks, thousands of Yazidi civilians fled the area taking refuge in Duhok Governorate after militant groups killed many of them. The Kurdistan region is home to hundreds of thousands of displaced families fleeing many parts of Iraq. Conflict and political instability have forced 1.2 million people from their homes. Cars, packed with children, have been fleeing into the Kurdish region, where hundreds of thousands of people are already sheltering. Sabri Gheeru is one of them.
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