Displaced Iraqis ‘living like animals’
The spiralling violence in Iraq has led to sustained “sectarian cleansing” with many families forced to take refuge in squalid camps.
The Red Crescent says more than 100,000 people – equally Sunni and Shia Muslim – living in mixed areas have fled their homes since the February bombing of the Golden mosque in Samarra, a revered Shia shrine, which led to a frenzy of tit-for-tat killings.
Those with nowhere to stay find themselves reduced to tent cities like Shu’lah in Baghdad, where 800 families now live.
Other animals do not engage in protracted onslaughts against their own.