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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

UN likens Syria crisis to Rwandan genocide - Middle East - Al Jazeera English


Almost 6.8 million Syrians need urgent humanitarian assistance, UN aid chief Valerie Amos said [File]

The number of people fleeing the conflict in Syria has escalated to an average of 6,000 a day during 2013, according to UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres.

"We have not seen a refugee outflow escalate at such a frightening rate since the Rwandan genocide almost 20 years ago," Guterres on Tuesday told a rare public briefing to the UN Security Council on Syria, where a government crackdown on pro-democracy protests more than two years ago has spiralled into civil war......

FULL ARTICLE HERE: UN likens Syria crisis to Rwandan genocide - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

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