US: Syrians fleeing war at rate not seen since Rwandan genocide
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The number of people fleeing the conflict in Syria has escalated to an average of 6,000 a day during 2013, a rate not seen since the genocide in Rwanda nearly two decades ago, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday.
Guterres said two-thirds of the nearly 1.8 million refugees registered with the United Nations in Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt and elsewhere had left Syria since the beginning of the year. "We have not seen a refugee outflow escalate at such a frightening rate since the Rwandan genocide almost 20 years ago." (Reuters)
