Could this be the start up kit. (two million Iraqi refugees )




Amnesty says Iraqi refugee crisis looms
By Stephanie Nebehay Reuters - Monday, April 16GENEVA (Reuters) - A new humanitarian crisis looms in the Middle East unless Western powers take urgent measures to assist four million Iraqis uprooted by conflict, Amnesty International warned on Monday.



The London-based human rights group called on the United States, the European Union and others to help Jordan and Syria, whose governments are struggling to care for some two million Iraqi refugees who have fled their homeland.

Another 1.9 million are displaced within Iraq, many in the past year marked by suicide bombings and sectarian violence.

The appeal came ahead of a two-day international conference in Geneva, opening on Tuesday, called by the United Nations refugee agency to confront massive needs in the region.

"The Middle East is on the verge of a new humanitarian crisis unless the European Union, U.S. and other states take urgent and concrete measures," Amnesty said in a statement.

Malcolm Smart, head of Amnesty International's Middle East and North African Programme, said Syria and Jordan had borne the brunt of the refugee exodus so far, "but there must be a limit".

"It is vital that other governments now step in and deliver ... direct assistance to ensure that the refugees are adequately housed and fed, and have access to health care and education in Syria, Jordan and the other (host) countries," he said.

From 40,000 to 50,000 Iraqis flee their homes each month in an exodus linked to pervasive violence, poor basic services, a loss of jobs, and an uncertain future, according to the UNHCR.

INCREASINGLY DESPERATE

More than 3,000 U.S. forces and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians have been killed since Washington led an invasion of the country in March 2003 that ousted dictator Saddam Hussein.

Sectarian tensions between majority Shi'ites and long dominant Sunni Arabs erupted after the bombing of a Shi'ite shrine in Samarra in February 2006, adding to widespread insurgency violence and prompting many to leave their homes.

"Those who have fled are becoming increasingly desperate as they and their host communities run out of resources," UNHCR spokesman Ron Redmond told reporters before the Geneva meeting.

"We hope to hear commitments on all of these aspects next week because the international community needs to focus collectively on a whole range of humanitarian needs," he said.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari, U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes, U.S. Under-Secretary of State Paula Dobriansky and senior European officials are among 450 officials due to attend.

Although the gathering is not a donor conference, U.N. officials hope that it will put pressure on Western states to provide more financial help and take more Iraqi asylum-seekers.

Amnesty urged the United States and EU member states to set up "generous settlement programs" to take in the most vulnerable Iraqi refugees, often in need of costly medical care.

"Such resettlement programs should go far beyond token numbers and should constitute a significant part of the solution to the current crisis," it said.

Several thousand Iraqi refugees were accepted by so-called third countries last year, according to UNHCR, which hopes to find 20,000 resettlement places this year.

Let the refugees bugger off back to Iraq and fight for their country. In the main, they are a bunch of chancers.

"It is vital that other governments now step in and deliver ... direct assistance to ensure that the refugees are adequately housed and fed, and have access to health care and education
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And at the same time.

Our old age pensioners whom have paid for our NHS since its formation are denied certain care and operations, and most who are 67+ have served in our Regular or National Service.


Their pensions are lower than they should or could be, the goverment quotes lack of cash, but the newcomers/illegals, get all the cash and help they ask for.

This country/parlament have made this country a joke, it's a free for all for any one who wants to come here and take as much money out of the state as they can, yet has already said, us the british TAX PAYER, well what do we get out of the state, Fu** all if they have their way with us. I remember when Child tax credits first came out, we got our money, then came along our second child so the tax credit went up a notch, so we thought. after many months we get a letter saying we owe the Inland revenue £3000 !! they have overpaid us, when I asked why, they said we did not provide the right info, they also said they worked out our credit on the basis that neither of us was working, so we qualified for maximum credit. their mistake not ours we gave all relevent info as honest tax paying people do.

I spoke again on the phone with a women, to whome I said if I changed my name to slobadom malocvich I'd not have to pay it back, to which she said proberly not !!

I think it's about time for a Civil war in our country, anybody got any links with the top brass in the MOD to stage a coup !!

I hope that the next election should put things back in their correct boxes.
But if this country under Tony's watch has gone passed the point of no return bearing in mind the Brussels super glue on rulings, then we are going down the tube fast to being controlled to a large extent by Muslim preaching’s, and I do not believe any other Europeon Union country allows immigrants of whatever religous flavour this much political power.

Have to say civil war only replaces one Tyrant with another.