Refugee Crisis 2016: Amid Syrian War, Displaced Population Reaches 60M

[Sally]

This is so much more worse than the amount of displace people after World War II.


Refugee Crisis 2016: Amid Syrian War, Displaced Population Reaches 60M
BY JESS MCHUGH @MCHUGHJESS ON 06/05/16 AT 10:34 AM



The number of displaced people in the world has reached 60 million, according to a report in the Economist. The report comes as the bodies of 133 more migrantswashed ashore Sunday in Libya, according to Reuters, after their smugglers’ boat capsized trying to reach Italy.

More than 1 million people sought asylum in Europe in 2015, and that crisis covered only a fraction of the tens of millions of people worldwide who have found themselves displaced by violent conflict. An escalating civil war in Syria, along with ongoing unrest in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as in areas of sub-Saharan Africa, has contributed to the spike of refugees worldwide.

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[aris2chat]

That is nearly as many that were killed in WWII

 

[flacaltenn]

So why is it that NATO, EU, G7 AND the UN --- refused to step up 2 years ago to create safe zones in this region?

There's some reason why -- best I can think of -- they didn't want to appear to take sides in the Sunni-Shiah wars.
Syrian territory near the Israel border and a sanctuary in Kurdish Iraq would have sufficient to defuse the mass migrations. Where sometimes 700 a DAY are drowning in the Med.

Is world leadership this callous and dysfunctional? Or am I missing something here? Why did it come to desperation and mass migration?