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Los Angeles: Child Refugees

child refugees: GENEVA - It's shaping up to be a lost generation: The number of child refugees fleeing Syria's violence has now topped the 1 million mark. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. "Can you imagine Wales without children? Can you imagine Boston and Los Angeles without children?" Guterres told reporters in Geneva. AP10ThingsToSee - FILE - Syrian refugees cross into Iraq at the Peshkhabour border point in Dahuk, 260 miles 430 kilometers northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2013. Around 30,000 Syrians, the vast majority of them Kurds, have fled the region over a five-day stretch and crossed the border to the self-ruled Kurdish region of northern Iraq. AP Photo/Hadi Mizban The grim milestone announced Friday by U.N. officials means as many Syrian children have been uprooted from their homes or families as the number of children who live in Wales, or in Boston and Los Angeles combined, said Antonio Guterres, the head of the Office for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.