Rwanda Genocide: Antonio Guterres

Antonio Guterres: An estimated 5,000 Syrians are dying every month in the countrys civil war and refugees are fleeing at a rate not seen since the 1994 Rwanda genocide, UN officials in Geneva said Tuesday, according to The Chronicle Herald. UN refugee chief Antonio Guterres said two-thirds of the nearly 1.8 million Syrian refugees known to the agency have fled since the beginning of 2013, an average of over 6,000 daily and In Syria today, serious human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity are the rule, said Ivan Simonovic, the assistant secretary-general for human rights, told the UN Security Council on Tuesday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.