NSC in the News: Iraqi Refugees Heading to Philly (Think.MTV)
Think.MTV Street Team ‘08: Cassidy Hartmann
Iraqi Refugees Heading to Philly
Posted July 31, 2008 at 10:05 AM
When Iraq War casualties are mentioned, the first things that come to most Americans minds are undoubtedly U.S. military deaths - which reached 4124 this week - and possibly the number of Iraqi civilians killed: upwards of 100,000.
But with the war into its fifth year, another type of casualty is only increasing, one not often mentioned by the media and far from most Americans’ minds: Iraqi civilians permanently displaced by the war. It can happen many ways: the bombing of a house, death of a family breadwinner, militia threats or even kidnapping, to name a few. Many Iraqis who can afford it have fled to neighboring Jordan or Syria, but even if they make it there, they often don’t have the finances or the connections to rebuild some semblance of their former lives.
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