Displacement of People Quotes

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

The abuse of civilians and combatants has existed since the dawn of time.

The world's oldest Christian populations have been driven from their homes and have become nearly extinct in the Middle East.

I think a weakened, fragmented, chaotic Iraq, which could happen if this isn’t done carefully, is more dangerous in the long run than a contained Saddam is now.

Conflicts are increasingly causing devastation in densely populated urban centres rather than open battlefields, creating a host of new problems through the cumulative impact from the destruction of vital services like water and electricity.

While the nature of warfare is changing and wars are moving into cities, they are also becoming longer and their consequences more impactful.

It doesn't take much insight to realize that wars have been getting worse every time - worse from the point of view of the civilian, more and more destructive, more and more total.

The worst legacy of World War II was the civilian as a target.

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method

Whatever happened after the liberation of Krajina, this was in no way a violation of human rights by Croatian authorities.

Bashar Assad's power over the areas of Syria under government control is slipping. Armed militias are growing stronger and the country's dictator can do nothing to stop them. Now, these fighters are taking over control in many areas, committing murder, looting and harassing civilians. And nobody can stop them, not even Assad himself. Indeed, the militias are now more powerful than even the country's dictator and have become the real holders of power in Syria.

It were a great advantage to the nation that thieving tribes were rooted out and cut off. It must be quietly done, otherwise they will make shift for both men and their cattle. Let it be secret and sudden.

Unlike the Vietnam boat people or Cuban refugees after Castro came to power, the U.S. has no moral responsibility for the chaos in Syria. In fact, just the opposite is the case.

Although we have do not have adequate access to all parts of Darfur we do fortunately have humanitarian personnel, including staff from my own office, in each of the three provincial capitals of Darfur.

No one else will really care, but I missed the wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Also the war in Chechnya.

Boko Haram, by itself, has destroyed large areas in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.

Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.

Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate.

Every war will astonish you.

We have a failed state in Syria.

Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.

Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts.

The migrant question is directly linked to the crisis in Syria and Iraq.

I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.