Frozen and forgotten: The neglected displacement crisis on Europe’s doorstep
Many of the world’s humanitarian catastrophes are described as forgotten emergencies, but only this one is playing out relatively unnoticed on the doorstep of Europe, over an area roughly the size of Switzerland.
The frozen, low-intensity conflict in Ukraine’s Donbass region will mark a grim, four-year milestone in April. And the numbers aren’t pretty: more than 10,000 killed and at least 23,000 injured.
At the beginning of 2014, Ukraine had no displaced people. Now, it’s on the world’s top ten list, with an estimated two million.
The roots of the conflict can be traced back to the winter of …read more
Source: IRIN
