Syria ‘hemorrhaging’ people in worst refugee crisis in recent history – UN

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The UN Refugee Agency has announced the number of Syrians, who have fled the country since civil war began in March 2011, has exceeded 2 million. Those who stay have to deal with fears of US strikes and violent attacks by rebel extremists.

This latest estimate means the number of Syrian refugees is now 10 times higher than just a year ago, with approximately half of those displaced being children. The trend is described as “nothing less than alarming” in a statement the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) released on Tuesday.

http://rt.com/news/syria-two-million-refugees-339/

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Every war makes this problem....... Perhaps they will have better conditions than these people.

Vietnamese Refugees: For Some Camps, Rape Was “Normal”

When the Vietnam war ended in 1975, a vast migration of Vietnamese people began. So many entered Thailand that the Thai government, the United Nations, and international human rights groups established refugee centers inside Thailand.

“But the cost of entering Thailand and the cost of entering the refugee camp was rape,” a Vietnamese American woman told us.

“My sister was raped 13 times,” she said.

“Many of my relatives disappeared. We are sure they must have been killed.”

By John Francis Carey

Above: Vietnamese children in a camp behind barbed wire

“This occurred in 1975 but continued for more than ten years as Vietnamese people came out of their home country,” the former refugee told us.

Thai sailors at sea were notorious as pirates searching the ocean for Vietnamese “Boat People.”

If the Thai men found helpless Vietnamese “Boat People,” they usually killed all and stole anything of value they found. First they raped the women of all ages.

“I was eight months pregnant,” one told us. “I was the only person not raped and killed in my boat. I saw my husband killed and one of my other relatives beheaded.”

No Thai government has ever effectively dealt with the human rights abuses they have witnesses for the last three decades.

One of the more notorious camps for refugees inside Thailand was known as “Sikhiew.”

“When I was 12, my family and I was in a refugee camp called “Sikhiew Camp” in Thailand,” wrote Chhai. “Life in the camp was no different to a prison, I could tell that the grown up were going crazy and very much depressed. There were brick walls surround us, we live, eat, and sleep in a building that housed around 200 people, each person were given a 65cm x 2m space.”

Another woman told us that after 6 PM, Sikhiew became a lawless area. “Thai men came in, grabbed a refugee woman, and disappeared to rape her all night.”

http://johnib.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/vietnamese-refugees-for-some-camps-rape-was-normal/