So what else is new!
Antonio Guterres, UN refugee chief and Socialist, says they aren’t going home. Would you go home to Afghanistan or Somalia?
GENEVA — UN refugee chief Antonio Guterres warned governments on Monday that unrelenting conflicts in Afghanistan and Africa were creating a near permanent “global” refugee burden.
Highlighting decades of displacement for millions of Afghans and Somalis, Guterres told the UNHCR’s annual governing Executive Committee that last year was the worst in two decades for returns.
About 250,000 refugees went back home in 2009, about one quarter of the annual average over the past 10 years, according to the agency.
They included just 61 Somalis.
My first question on the 61 Somalis who went home is, are they the former refugees who returned to Somalia for terrorist training? Why else go back? And, my second question is, why doesn’t Guterres mention the thousands sent back to Mogadishu by the good and charitable Muslims of Saudi Arabia (here)?
Guterres said last year that the tradition of helping refugees comes from Islamic Shariah law and not Christian charity. I kid you not!
Then get this! Guterres says 800,000 need resettlement and there are only 10% of those who will be resettled. Interesting number since the US goal in recent years and I expect for 2011 it will be the same (we are still waiting to see what Obama proposed to Congress last Thursday) is 80,000. The US then takes almost all of the world’s resettled refugees!