Angelina Jolie Recalls ''Unspeakable Brutality'' for Iraqi Refugees
In a powerful new op-ed for the New York Times, the 39-year-old actress and special envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees recounted the heart-wrenching trip she took just several days ago.
“I have visited Iraq five times since 2007, and I have seen nothing like the suffering I’m witnessing now,” the Oscar winner writes. “I came to visit the camps and informal settlements where displaced Iraqis and Syrian refugees are desperately seeking shelter from the fighting that has convulsed their region. In almost four years of war, nearly half of Syria’s population of 23 million people has been uprooted. Within Iraq itself, more than two million people have fled conflict and the terror unleashed by extremist groups. These refugees and displaced people have witnessed unspeakable brutality. Their children are out of school, they are struggling to survive, and they are surrounded on all sides by violence.”
Source: www.eonline.com