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Opinion

BY KEVIN DUNBAR

January 29, 2018

The past 12 months have been a horrific year for humanitarian crisis. The war in Syria continued. We watched nearly one million refugees from Myanmar stream into Bangladesh, seeking protection from rape, mass killings and unspeakable violence. After more than 1,000 days of war, more than half of th...

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