Refugees stories:
Sri Lanka agrees to release 130000 Tamils displaced by war
Nov 21st, 2009 - CNN
Colombo, Sri Lanka (CNN) -- The Sri Lankan government said Saturday it will lift restrictions on thousands of war-displaced ethnic Tamils still residing in squalid internment camps.Pakistan Says Troops Close Off Taliban Escape Routes
Nov 3rd, 2009 - Bloomberg
Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan said its army has surroundedpro-Taliban militants and cut off routes that would allow themto escape in large numbers from South Waziristan as the numberof refugees fleeing the conflict there climbed.
Waziristan offensive is pivotal test for Pakistan army, residents
Oct 27th, 2009 - Washington Post
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, PAKISTAN -- As Pakistan's army battles with guns and jets to wrest control of the restive South Waziristan region from the Taliban, it remains unclear...
Refugees don't think Pakistan's anti-Taliban efforts are serious
Oct 22nd, 2009 - MiamiHerald
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan -- The Pakistani army's latest offensive against the Taliban in South Waziristan, probably the country's most significant anti-terror operation since 2001...
Pakistan offensive against Taliban creates angry refugees
Oct 21st, 2009 - The Christian Science Monitor
Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan - Antimilitary feelings are running high among refugees in this town just outside South Waziristan, where more than 100,000 Pakistanis have fled from an Army offensive aimed at destroying the Pakistani Taliban network.
Refugees videos from YouTube:
3:18Refugees by Suheir Hammad
A video about Refugees set to Suheir Hammad's piece on the K-Salaam hip-hop album. The pictures in this video were not taken by me. I only arranged into an original slideshow. The Dafur pictures ...
6:23Van Der Graaf Generator - Refugees
From "The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other" (1970) N. was somewhere years ago and cold: ice locked the people's hearts and made them old. S. was birth to pleasant lands, but dry: I walked the waters' depths and played my mind ...
3:19Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Refugee
Music video by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers performing Refugee with John Goodhue [Video Director], John Goodhue [Video Producer] (C) 1979 Geffen Records
3:11Tribal Ink - Refugee
In fear of drowning As my heart keeps pounding Striking ones step To hold on to what's left Hold on, to the strings of reality Bouncing on my heel of prosperity Leave from my cell with a gleam in my eye Watching it all wash by ...
Refugees from WikiPedia:
A refugee is a person who flees to escape conflict, persecution or natural disaster.
Owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of their nationality, and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail him/herself of the protection of that country.The concept of a refugee was expanded by the Conventions’ 1967 Protocol and by regional conventions in Africa and Latin America to include persons who had fled war or other violence in their home country. A person who is seeking to be recognized as a refugee is an asylum seeker. Refugee was defined as a legal group in response to the large numbers of people fleeing Eastern Europe following World War II.
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