Sunday, May 24, 2009

Refugees survive on food 'cows won't eat'

By: Joe Kain
Original Article Here

More and more people each day are leaving their homes to go to the Jalozai refugee camp near Peshawar. The camp is almost a city as it contains 93,000 people right now and it continues to grow as more people flee to escape the fighting between the Pakistan army and Taliban fighters. However, this is just one camp. Officials say up to 1.8 million people are being forced from their homes. The UN estimates that this is the largest relocation of people in Pakistan since the country was formed in 1947. The Jalozai refugee camp has provisions such as food and water but according to a one man at the camp, "it's very poor quality -- even the cows won't eat it."

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