Somebody must have hated writing this:
World's tally of refugees falls.
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has reported that "The number of refugees and displaced people around the world has fallen by 18% to just over 17m - the lowest level in a decade". Notably, more than half a million people returned to Afghanistan.
Buried in the middle of the article, we find "Large numbers also returned to Angola, Burundi and Iraq. What? Iraq? But I keep reading that it's a shambles and that it's a country under oppressive US occupation. How can people be going back home there? Don't they read the Independent?
Well done to the BBC on keeping this uncomfortable little fact buried so well. Can't have good news coming out, can we?
_ DY
at 11:06 AM BST
