Samuel Totten: Antonio Guterres

Antonio Guterres: Mr. Guterres said two-thirds of the nearly 1.8 million refugees registered with the United Nations in Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt and elsewhere had left Syria since the beginning of the year. More Related to this Story, according to Globe and Mail. Canada opens its doors to 1,300 Syrian refugees The number of people fleeing the conflict in Syria has escalated to an average of 6,000 a day during 2013 - a rate not seen since the genocide in Rwanda nearly two decades ago, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday. Gerald Caplan, Samuel Totten and Amanda Grzyb Genocide: America says Never Again, but keeps turning a blind eye (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.