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The number of people displaced by conflict is at the highest level ever recorded, the UN refugee agency says. It estimates that 65.3m people were either refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced at the end of 2015, an increase of 5m in a year.
This represents one in every 113 people on the planet, the UN agency says.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-36573082
How many of these people are heading towards the EU? Everyone's entitled to their own view of course but I have a sneaky feeling* that as the numbers getting into Europe steadily increase it will start to dawn on people just what the scale and repercussions of this problem are. Once you've given people hope of a new, better, life it's hard to deprive them of it. Furthermore, those who hitherto would have stayed at home and suffered now have the expectation that if they can just make it to Europe, they'll be OK. Try stopping a force as fundamental as that. Not only are we giving them false hope, we're putting them into the hands of traffickers who'll happily take their money and watch them die.
How many more examples do we need to prove that the course we're on is a route to disaster?...
* confirmed by what we've already witnessed happenning in the EU.