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Originally Posted by Azure
I don't have a problem with helping them. But what if more ships start coming?
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Well, actually, Canada is LUCKY in that situation. There are very few countries with brutal regimes systematically wiping out the civilian population that are within a reasonable sailing distance. The people of Darfur have over-run Chad.
From Red Cross Magazine:
http://www.redcross.int/EN/mag/magaz...5_2/22-23.html
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So in spite of tensions over firewood or water, people need to find a way to live together peacefully. That message is understood in Bredging village. “We are like brother and sister. We have to share. We are the same people separated by a border,” says Haoua Mahamat. Bredging village headman, Abdoulaye Ibrahim Djibrine, 47, says, “There are lots of difficulties, but we support the refugees. Although there’s not much room for them here, we have to live together.”
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There appears to be far more generosity from those that live in huts, walk miles for clean water and collect wood for cooking food than there is from those with 50 inch TV screens. Chad took in 200,000 refugees that flooded over their borders, certainly jumping THEIR refugee queue.