- A confidential internal United Nations report prepared
last month estimated that a US-led war would create nearly one million
refugees needing outside resettlement and 7.2 million people displaced
internally, millions of whom could later swell the ranks of refugees.
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- The report estimated that 100,000 would need immediate
resettlement once the US attacked the country.
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- "There is also the likelihood of transit camps being
established in Iraq adjacent to borders, with a population of perhaps 500,000,"
the report states.
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- The displaced people in immediate danger because of a
lack of health services would include 4.2million children under five and
one million lactating women.
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- Federal Opposition foreign spokesman Kevin Rudd demanded
that the Government explain how it would handle such a big influx of refugees.
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- http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/25/1042911596223.html
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