The enormous humanitarian crisis developing in Iraq: 1 million+ have fled their homes

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More than 1 million Iraqis have fled their homes as ISIS continues armed siege

re than 1 million Iraqis have been forced from their homes by conflict this year, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday -- a number likely only to rise as Islamist militants and Iraqi security forces battle for control.

A humanitarian crisis is brewing, as families who've fled fighting with little more than the clothes on their back seek water, food and shelter from the summer heat.

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An estimated 500,000 people fled Iraq's second-largest city, Mosul, last week after it fell to fighters from the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS). On Friday, the International Committee of the Red Cross in Iraq put the number who fled Mosul, with its population of 1.6 million, at about 800,000.

Already, a half-million people were displaced from Iraq's western Anbar province, where Sunni militants have been dominant since early this year.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/20/world/meast/iraq-crisis/9f931363695e69f43bf527

The U.S. invasion is the direct cause of this horror. Period.

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1. CNN ignored the slaughter of Iraqis and the humanitarian crisis

when it was the US and its allies committing genocide and other war crimes. Who authorized the use of DU against the citizens of Iraq?
There is no doubt who is responsible, but were the corporate media not complicit by its silence, we may not have reached this moment.