BAGHDAD, July 20: The United Nations is looking to find a solution to the problem of more than one million internally displaced Iraqis, uprooted under Saddam Hussein’s regime, refugee agency chief Ruud Lubbers said on Sunday.

“We go for justice ... to find a solution for everybody,” the High Commissioner for Refugees told journalists during a visit to Baghdad.

“One of the challenges is that Iraqis are uprooted in the country, the victims of the violence of Saddam Hussein,” Lubbers said.

He said up to 800,000 Kurds had been moved out of their homelands in the north while as many as 300,000 Shias had been forced from their homes in the southern marshlands, drained under the Baath Party regime.

The UN refugee chief said he had already visited the Kurdish-majority north of Iraq and would make a trip to the south on Monday.—AFP