{"id":136773,"date":"2019-07-08T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=136773"},"modified":"2019-11-19T10:55:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T10:55:56","slug":"us-government-tops-all-for-creating-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/07\/us-government-tops-all-for-creating-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"US Government Tops All for Creating Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"
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30 Jun 2019 – <\/em>On June 19th<\/sup>, Statistica headlined \u201cNumber of forcibly displaced people reaches new high\u201d<\/a>, and when one looks at the data, one finds an even bigger story which stands behind those numbers.<\/p>\n

This new report from the United Nations<\/a> documents Statistica\u2019s headline, and it proves that America\u2019s regime-change operations have actually created around half of the world\u2019s refugees. It proves that America\u2019s penchant for invading and trying to overthrow the governments that its billionaires want to replace (\u201cregime-change\u201d) has been by far the biggest of all single causes of refugees worldwide, vastly higher than any other government. Regardless of how bad those other governments might possibly be, the US regime is far worse \u2014 at least as being the cause, the creator, of the world\u2019s refugee problems.<\/p>\n

Consider the countries that the US regime has recently regime-changed or attempted to.<\/p>\n

The US regime invaded Afghanistan in 2001, Iraq in 2003, Syria in 2012-2019, and has been applying, in order to overthrow the Government of Venezuela, strangulating economic sanctions. All of those four target-countries (Syria, Venezuela, Iraq, and Afghanistan) lead the list of nations that are bleeding the most refugees. The US regime\u2019s \u201cregime-change\u201d operations abroad are therefore certainly the leading cause of the world\u2019s refugee-crisis.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the big news in the new UN report, though it is news that the report itself ignores.<\/p>\n

The biggest of these crises in 2018 were Syria and Venezuela, which were the US regime\u2019s most recent regime-change operations. But Afghanistan and Iraq are also among the top bleeders of refugees \u2014 even now, over 15 years after the US regime had invaded them.<\/p>\n

On 26 January 2019, Britain\u2019s Independent<\/em> headlined \u201cVenezuela crisis: Former UN rapporteur says US sanctions are killing citizens:<\/a> \u2018Modern-day economic sanctions and blockades are comparable with medieval sieges of towns\u2019\u201d and reported:<\/p>\n

Mr De Zayas, a former secretary of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) and an expert in international law, spoke to The Independent following the presentation of <\/em>his Venezuela report<\/em><\/a> to the HRC in September. He said that since its presentation the report has been ignored by the UN and has not sparked the public debate he believes it deserves. \u201cSanctions kill,\u201d he told The Independent, adding that they fall most heavily on the poorest people in society, demonstrably cause death through food and medicine shortages, lead to violations of human rights and are aimed at coercing economic change.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In order for the US regime to blame Venezuela\u2019s Government 100% for Venezuela\u2019s problems including the economic shortages that result from the US regime\u2019s sanctions, the US regime stages attempts to send aid to the Venezuelan people, and this aid is, of course, blocked by Venezuela\u2019s Government, because it is just the aggressor\u2019s PR stunt \u2014 the US regime\u2019s effort to take over the country in a \u2018kind\u2019 way. (After all, Hitler claimed to love the \u201cVolk,\u201d even as he served the interests of Germany\u2019s armaments-firms and the billionaires who controlled them.) However, if the aggressor had honestly<\/em> wanted to help Venezuelans, it wouldn\u2019t be applying such strangulating economic sanctions, which include penalties against countries that trade with Venezuela \u2014 an economic blockade against Venezuela.<\/p>\n

Here are highlights in the new report from the UN<\/a>:<\/p>\n

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, \u201cGLOBAL TRENDS: Forced Displacement in 2018\u2033<\/a><\/p>\n

The report says that in 2018, there were \u201c13.6 million newly displaced\u201d persons.<\/p>\n

\u201cAltogether, more than two thirds (67 per cent) of all refugees worldwide came from just five countries:\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Syria<\/td>\n6.7M<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Afghanistan<\/td>\n2.7M<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sudan<\/td>\n2.3M<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Myanmar<\/td>\n1.1M<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Somalia<\/td>\n0.9M<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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\u00a0\u201cThe main countries of asylum for refugees were:\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Turkey<\/td>\n3.7M<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pakistan<\/td>\n1.4M<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Uganda<\/td>\n1.2M<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sudan<\/td>\n1.1M<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Germany<\/td>\n1.1M<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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However, this chaotic UN report also states that:<\/p>\n

At the end of 2018, Syrians continued to be the largest forcibly displaced population, with 13.0 million people living in displacement. \u2026 Colombians were the second largest group, with 8.0 million forcibly displaced, most of them (98 per cent) inside their country at the end of 2018. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Presumably, the reason why Colombia does\u2019t show on the list of \u201cnewly displaced\u201d is that most of its \u201c8.0 million forcibly displaced\u201d occurred during the civil war there, which peaked in 2009.<\/p>\n

\u201cFigure 17 | Major recipient countries of new asylum applications | 2017-2018\u201d shows that pending<\/em> asylum-applications<\/em> are the highest in US, second-highest is in Peru (mainly from Venezuela<\/a> resulting from America\u2019s economic sanctions against Venezuela), third-highest is in Germany (mainly from Arabic lands that America invaded), fourth-highest is in France (mainly from Arabic lands that America invaded), and fifth-highest is in Turkey (mainly from Arabic lands that America invaded).<\/p>\n

In other words: four of those five countries are lands where America\u2019s strangulating economic sanctions, and invasions, by America\u2019s own troops and by its proxy-forces such as Al Qaeda and other \u2018rebels\u2019<\/a>, drove millions of people out. Though the confusing report doesn\u2019t note it, most of that \u201chighest in US\u201d asylum-applications come from the US regime\u2019s banana republics \u2014 Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador \u2014 where the US trained death squads etc.<\/a> created (or at least encouraged) the problems, at least a decade or more ago. Consequently, even in some nations where the US regime didn\u2019t create refugees by means of invasions, it created many by coups and other means.<\/p>\n

\u201cFigure 18 | Major source countries of new asylum-seekers | 2017-2018\u201d shows that in 2018, the highest number of new asylum-applicants were from Venezuela, second-highest were from Afghanistan, third-highest were from Syria, and fourth-highest were from Iraq. All of those are lands that suffer from the US regime\u2019s past and current aggressions. (Of course, everybody expects Iran to be the next.)<\/p>\n

Venezuelan refugees and asylum-seekers grew in number during 2018. The broader movement of Venezuelans through the region and beyond, increasingly took on the characteristics of a refugee situation, with some 3.4 million living outside Venezuela by the end of 2018, as more than 3 million Venezuelans left their homes, travelling mainly elsewhere in Latin America and the Caribbean. \u201cThis is the biggest exodus in the region\u2019s recent history, and one of the biggest displacement crises in the world.\u201d It could turn out to be even worse than Colombia\u2019s was. The report notes:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen my nine-month-old daughter died because of the lack of medicines, doctors or treatment, I decided to take my family out of Venezuela before another one of my children died. Diseases were getting stronger than us. I told myself, either we leave or we die.\u201d \u2013 Eulirio Baes, a 33-year-old indigenous Warao from Delta Amacuro in Venezuela. He abandoned the Warao\u2019s ancestral lands and took his entire family to Brazil after three relatives died<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lebanon continued to host the largest number of refugees relative to its national population. 1 in 6 people there was a refugee. Jordan (1 in 14) and Turkey (1 in 22) ranked second and third, respectively. Of course, those lands receive mainly Syrian refugees.<\/p>\n

At the end of 2018, Syrians continued to be the largest forcibly displaced population, with 13.0 million people living in displacement, including 6,654,000 refugees, 6,184,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) and 140,000 asylum-seekers. Colombians were the second largest group, with 8.0 million forcibly displaced, most of them (98 per cent) still living inside their country at the end of 2018. The top two foreign recipients of refugees from Colombia were Spain and Ecuador. As previously noted, Colombia\u2019s refugees were generated by the lengthy civil war there<\/a>, which peaked in 2009. The following visual, which is the most comprehensible part of this chaotic (and in places uninterpretable) UN report, doesn\u2019t show Colombia, because these were the refugee-flows only for the year of 2018:<\/p>\n

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That visual is around half of the interpretable content in the entire 28-page UN report. It\u2019s a visual way of showing that the US regime\u2019s regime-change operations produce around half of the entire world\u2019s refugee-problem. The only US Presidential candidate who even so much as just mentions America\u2019s \u201cregime-change wars\u201d (and she is strongly against them) is Tulsi Gabbard, and she currently scores the support of fewer than 1% of America\u2019s Democrats in that Party\u2019s Presidential primary polls. So, at least America\u2019s Democrats are overwhelmingly unconcerned about their country\u2019s causing around half of the entire world\u2019s refugee crisis. And there is no indication that America\u2019s Republican voters are more concerned about it than the Democratic voters are. Americans, evidently, don\u2019t care about this matter. At least, not yet.<\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 <\/em>They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/a>,<\/em> of\u00a0<\/em>Christ\u2019s Ventriloquists: The Event that Created Christianity<\/a>, and\u00a0of<\/em>\u00a0Feudalism, Fascism, Libertarianism and Economics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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