June 18, 2008

Refugee day comes to London

To hammer home the plight of refuges a replica village appeared in Trafalgar Square yesterday, complete with the burnt remains of the huts and other items, it is meant to show what is it must be like to be driven from your home.

Around the village was a makeshift refugee camp, with tents and sack of food, this is a great example of what it must feel like to be in this situation, when whole families and villages are forced from their own property for various reasons.

Of course this may illustrate the horror of being a refugee, but clearly it cannot ever show the way that these people must be feeling. In fact last year according to the UN, 11.4 million people were driven away from their homes. Which is something that we can never really know what it is like to be forced as a mass to leave our homes?

Source [AP]