The U.N. says 110 million people in the world today have had to flee their homes because of conflict, persecution, or human rights violations. The war in Sudan has displaced nearly 2 million people since it started April 12. Conflicts in Ukraine, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia and Myanmar have also led to the record-breaking figure. Filippo Grandi, who leads the U.N. refugee agency, told reporters ahead of the report that they are “quite an indictment on the state of our world.” Last year alone, an additional 19 million people were forcibly displaced including more than 11 million who fled Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in what became the fastest and largest displacement of people since World War II.
  • tallwookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    what if those 110 millions decided to take an active part in war? the war would very quickly end

    • 133arc585English
      51·
      1 year ago

      This is an insane take. Some percent of those people would die due to active participation in the war; you can not use the war “very quickly end[ing]” as justification for sacrificing human lives. I guarantee you the vast majority of these people are more interested in living their lives without threats of external violence than sacrificing themselves for someone else’s war.

      • ghost_laptopEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        Plus imaging sending people from Africa to fight in Ukraine… That’s without mentioning you are literally doing the Volksturm kind of thing, a civilian with a gun it’s still a civilian.