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Iraq’s crisis comparable to Darfur

By Mark Turner at the United Nations

Published: September 10 2007 16:17 | Last updated: September 10 2007 16:17

Four years after a US-led invasion that was sold to the public partly on humanitarian grounds, Iraqis are suffering from a man-made catastrophe comparable in scope to the tragedy in Darfur.

The plight facing Iraqis “is as significant (as Darfur),” says Margarette Wahlstrom, deputy head of the UN’s aid coordination arm Ocha.

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