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Article: Refugee Plight Affects Millions
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 24, 1994
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The flight of more than a million Rwandans from their country is
a reminder that a refugee is a victim of human cruelty - it's someone
compelled to cross an international border with no guarantee of
returning home.
Earthquakes and floods do not cause refugees, humans do. Usual
causes are war or other political, racial or religious strife.
In this century there have been, in addition to two world wars,
dozens of instances in which huge numbers of refugees have fled their
homelands. Counts vary, but these are instances since World War II
in which there have been a million or more refugees:
1945, 2.6 million Koreans: In northern Korea after World War II,
the Soviets displaced the ...