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355: THE USA IS NOT IN THESE COUNTRIES:

29 August, 2008

THE USA IS NOT IN THESE COUNTRIES: Hundreds of Thousands of Internally Displaced Persons IDPs! We thought there were IDPs only in Iraq and Afghanistan

Gleaned from IRIN-News / Plus-News Monday 25^th August 2008

Muqtedar Khan, Ph.D. of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists, and the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy: “Before we rush to condemn America we must remember that even today, millions of poor, miserable, and down-trodden peoples all across the world are lining up outside US Embassies eager to go to America, not just to live there, but to become American citizens. No Moslem country – at present or in the past – could claim that people of other nations and other faiths saw it as a promise of hope, equality, prosperity, and dignity; and the chance to be whatever they chose to be, so long as they were prepared to work hard to be. Saturday 17^th February 2007

Oh ye narrow-minded Apes – Arabs, Arab-speaking, and all the rest – with your short-spanned attention and your memories like sieves! Read my posting: 309

* SRI LANKA: Education of thousands disrupted by fighting

COLOMBO: According to the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), the national authorities, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), and local authorities in northern districts are pooling resources to enable thousands of displaced students to continue their education despite disruption by conflicts. Clashes between Sri Lankan government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have escalated recently in the four northern districts of Mannar, Vavuniya, Kilinochchi, and Mulaitivu, forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes, including an estimated 12,000 students, most of whom were preparing to take their government exams this month.

* PHILIPPINES: UN appeals for peace as fighting escalates in south

MANILA: UN agencies have appealed for peace in the south where fighting between government forces and Muslim separatist rebels has escalated over the past two weeks and the number of Internally Displaced Persons is now over an estimated 270,000.

Daniel: You realise that estimated means less than the real figure since only those they were able to count were included. And! The figure is what it was more than a week ago, so you may guess what the figure is today, and even predict what it will be later.

On 22^nd August, a statement by the UN/IASC said civilian lives were at risk as a result of fighting between the army and the MILF: the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in Mindanao. The Defence Secretary said government troops were closing in on the rebels, but told the public to prepare for a protracted battle. Meanwhile, the Global Rights – the Global Retches – Group, Amnesty International – Ass-holes Inebriated – has warned the government against creating additional civilian militias to support its offensive against the rebels in the south., and asked both sides to exercise restraint and make sure civilians are not harmed. The warning came after the Interior Department had said on 20^th August it was sending a cache of shotguns to arm civilians so that they could defend themselves from, and even hunt for, MILF fighters.

Daniel: UNICEF, Human and Global Rights, Amnesty International, Child-Sponsor Agencies, Women’s Rights – especially in Islamic Arab and Arab-Speaking Countries – and all the other con-syndicates: white-washed tombstones fronting rotten corpses! Where do these Miserable Monkeys come from and what do they take us for? If the MILF arm civilians and force them to fight – by threats, intimidation, and other means – it’s all right; but if the government arms civilians to defend themselves and hunt the MILF Mother-Fuckers, it’s not all right; actually, they are afraid of more civilian casualties because that would force them to dip into the funds, which they need for their own pockets and comforts; not all of us are Etc, and so forth and so on.

* SOMALIA: Humanitarian situation increasingly acute

NAIROBI, 27^th August 2008: According to humanitarian officials, an estimated 3.2 million people in urban and rural areas face extreme poverty, and the combined effects of escalating conflicts, civilian insecurity and instability has fuelled an economic crisis that has begun to have a wider and more devastating impact on the broader population, threatening to plunge the country into an even greater humanitarian disaster.

NAIROBI, 25^th August 2008: Islamic insurgents took total control of Somalia's southern port city of Kismayo, 500km south of the capital Mogadishu, after three days of intense fighting that displaced an estimate of thousands of families and killed 100 people.

* BURUNDI: FAO predicts serious food shortages

BUJUMBURA, 27^th August 2008: According to an official of the UN/FAO: UN Food and Agriculture Organization, parts of eastern and southern Burundi are threatened with acute food shortages following low agricultural yields compounded by an influx of returning refugees.

* ETHIOPIA: Thousands more displaced as floods spread

ADDIS ABABA, 27^th August 2008: Flash floods following torrential rains in Ethiopia's Gambella regional state have spread to four woredas or districts and displaced tens of thousands of people.

* ZIMBABWE: Hopes of a political settlement waning

Zimbabwe's economic crisis is set to worsen. Almost everything is in short supply and annual inflation has risen above 11%. Signs of political tension have resurfaced after a lull in the political violence that erupted following the March elections. The police also reported two bombings in the capital, Harare: in the first incident, earlier in August, several offices at Harare central police station were blown up; the second damaged a railway track 30km west of the city on 21 August.

* NEPAL: Over 40,000 Internally Displaced Persons face diseases and starvation

KATHMANDU 26^th August 2008: Over 40,000 people were displaced by flooding in Nepal’s Sunsari District, 500km southeast of Kathmandu, and they faced………

* NIGER: Northern desert conflicts disrupt everything

AGADEZ 26^th August 2008: Agadez; a main entry point to the Air Mountains bordering the Sahara desert, was under a state of alert after northern desert rebels had taken up arms against the government. All buses and private cars travelling to the north could do so only every other day; when military convoys are available.

* SUDAN: Disease, Squalor, Starvation, Poverty – and Weapons – in IDP camp

KHARTOUM, 26^th August 2008: Sudanese police surrounded one of the largest sites for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Darfur, the day after gunfire had caused dozens of injuries and, according to some sources, numerous fatalities. Government forces entered Kalma Camp in July, saying they had seized a variety of ammunition and weapons including canons, mortars, a machine-gun and other weapons and ammunition. According to the Sudan Tribune newspaper, the latest was the fifth government raid of the camp.

Dear readers and fellow-Apes; and so it goes…on and on…ad infinitum. And the joke and the irony are: The USA is not in these countries!

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