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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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By Stef W. Knight @ Axios.com, May 18 CHART @ LINK
As of 2017, more people have been forced by violence and conflict to flee their homes than live in the U.K. or France.
Why it matters: That's upwards of 60 million people — a global nation of refugees. If all of these asylum-seekers, internally displaced people and refugees were a country, they'd be the 21st most populous nation in the world, according to UNHCR estimates. More than half of refugees are under the age of 18.
The big picture: The crisis is the worst its been since World War II, and it's not getting better [....]
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The numbers dont add up. 13.5m from Syria is new. Afghanistan's 3.7m includes at least a million over the last decades of occupation and civil war. Rohingya have a million living in Bangladesh - the new wave is a half million or so. South Sudan + Somalia's another 3 million or so. How that makes a spurt of 42 million is lost on me.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 05/19/2019 - 6:36am