Kurdish refugees from the Syrian town of Kobani sit in front of their tents in a camp in the southeastern town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province, October 5, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Umit Bektas
U.N. Says 13.6 Million Displaced By Wars In Iraq And Syria -- Reuters
(Reuters) - About 13.6 million people, equivalent to the population of London, have been displaced by conflicts in Syria and Iraq, many without food or shelter as winter starts, the U.N. refugee agency said UNHCR on Tuesday.
Amin Awad, UNHCR's director for the Middle East and North Africa, said the world was becoming numb to the refugees' needs.
"Now when we talk about a million people displaced over two months, or 500,000 overnight, the world is just not responding," he told reporters in Geneva.
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Update: UNHCR warns of winter crisis for almost 1 million displaced Iraqis and Syrians -- UNHCR
My Comment: These numbers are staggering, and with winter now approaching .... one can only imagine the misery that all of them must be going through.
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