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Article: Kenya sends Somali refugees back home: UN Refugee Agency
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- January 3, 2007
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Kenya sends Somali refugees back home: UN Refugee Agency
NAIROBI, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) -- UN Refugee agency UNHCR said Wednesday
that thousands of Somali refugees who fled fighting between the
Ethiopia-backed transitional government and now- vanquished Islamists
have been deported by Kenya.
UNHCR regional spokeswoman Millicent Mutuli said Kenyan
authorities broke the international law by deporting more than 300
refugees who fled fighting across the border in Somalia.
"International law was broken when 340 (refugees), mostly women
and children, were driven in trucks from a Kenyan border transit
camp," Mutuli said.
The refugees fled from Islamist militias who were driven from the
southern port ...