Angelina Jolie begs world to do more during visit to Turkish camps filled with Syrians and Iraqis

DailyMail ^ | 20 June 2015 | By Kelly Mclaughlin

[dennisw]

'There is an explosion of human suffering': Angelina Jolie begs the world to do more during visit to Turkish camps filled with Syrians and Iraqis who have fled war

Angelina Jolie serves as a United Nations special envoy for refugees She visited a refugee camp in southeastern Turkey on Saturday, which is home to Syrians and Iraqis displaced by war This visit is the latest in a series of trips to Turkey as part of her work to bring attention to the plight of refugees This was Jolie's third visit to Turkey since 2011, when Syria conflict began Turkey hosts the world's largest refugee community, about 1.6million

After visiting a camp for Syrian refugees in southeastern Turkey on Saturday, actress Angelina Jolie said the world is living through an era of mass displacement.

Jolie, who serves as a United Nations special envoy for refugees, was speaking at a news conference in southeastern Turkey, home to Syrians and Iraqis displaced by war, on World Refugee Day.

'Never before have so many people been dispossessed or stripped of their human rights,' Jolie said.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Special Envoy Angelina Jolie said on Saturday - World Refugee Day - that the world is living through an era of mass displacement

As Special Envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Angelina Jolie's role is to bring attention to the plight of refugees

There is an explosion of human suffering and displacement on a level that has never been seen before,' Jolie said, warning that Syrians and Iraqis were running out of safe havens as neighbouring states reached the limit of their capacity.

[Gaffer]

I’m sure she’s got plenty of room in one of her mansions. Why not start there and put in some bunk beds for them?

[dennisw]

Send the Christian and Yazidi refugees here. Not the Muslims. Let the wealthy Muslim nations provide for their brothers in Allah. But off course all the Syrian refugees Obungu and his evil doer ilk plan to flood America with are Muslims

[ilgipper]

I won’t happen until we have a competent US President, Angie. Currently, there is an international leadership vacuum.

[Flintlock]

Can’t do nothing.

These are all Obummer’s homeboys and co-religionists.

[Tupelo]

I have a hard time getting my mind around this woman.
Sometimes she acts and does things that drive me crazy.
Other times like this she acts and does things that make me want to see her canonized.

Certified loon or a saint?

[silverleaf]

There have been many times in history when more people have been stripped of their “human rights”, Angie

The only way history righted this was when these populations exercised their human responsibilities and took mattersintotheir own hands to stop their oppressors

Please address your pleas to these refugees to stop running away and start fighting back and don’t expect a Christian culture they hate and reject to come save them

[silverleaf]

And then there’s this too

[samtheman]

She doesn’t want to help with her money. She wants to use yours

[mikefive]

Give them all a weapon (should be plenty laying around with all the ones the syrian and iraqi guys dropped) and a 30rd mag and send them back. If they aren’t willing to fight for their own country, I have no use for them.

[bubman]

She is still pretty awesome. On the charitable side she dows more than most:

http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49db77906.html

[Gaffer]

It's always that way. They think it is enough that they deign to lend their awesome magnificence to a problem by speaking empty words and platitudes.

[I want the USA back]

She has the money. She can take a few dozen in and give them food and prayer rugs.

[submarinerswife]

I’m sure she’s got plenty of room in one of her mansions. Why not start there and put in some bunk beds for them?

I agree. These stars like to spout to the rest of us about what we should do with no action on their part

However, she does more than the rest who never leave their cushy Holywood homes.

[grania]

I wish Joli would bring it directly to the Pope. Raise a Christian army to protect minorities from the US and our allies (how sick is that?). I believe Joli’s passion for the plight of those displaced by the horrific wars around the world.

[Gaffer]

In the end though she is advocating the use of other peoples’ money. No one on this earth made her the harbinger of charity. I doubt God did either.

[glasseye]

Ask yourself how much of HER fortune she has given.
There you will fin the answer.

[Popman]

there is an international leadership vacuum.

there is an international leadership vacuum. black hole...

Fixed it fer you... :)

Hopefully it doesn't turn into a "Event Horizon"

[glasseye]

5 million given, her credibility has risen in my eyes.
Thanks for the link.

[jjotto]

Jolie, crazy as she might be, does indeed give millions to charities every year. That’s very much unlike most of her Hollywood friends.