Iraq: The displaced and the displeased

Between February and March 2008, almost 30,000 more Iraqis became “Internally Displaced Persons”, or refugees inside their own country. According to the Iraqi Red Crescent, there are now 2,2 million IDPs in Iraq, an increase of 1,3 percent in less than two months. The reason was violence, this time in the south and in the Kurdish areas, where Turkey’s offensive against the PKK drove people from their homes.