Myanmar refugees refuse to go home 15 years on
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COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh  - Imam Sharif and his family have lived in a squalid refugee camp in Bangladesh since they fled Myanmar 16 years ago.
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Myanmar's military junta has extended opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest by another year, a government source said on Friday.
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Some 13 years after the war's end, Lebanon still does not know how to deal with its memories of a 15-year period of devastation in which about 7 percent of the population was killed, 10 percent seriously injured and up to 25 percent forced to move.
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Liberian refugees are slowly trickling home after years of living in camps as a brutal civil war raged at home. Mariam Kromah is one of them.
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A former Khmer Rouge leader said he will not flee Cambodia to escape justice as he appealed Thursday for his release from pretrial detention
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Without security, a generation may remain trapped in congested camps, afraid to return to their homes.
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MAE HONG SON, Thailand  - For the past two   decades, hundreds of ethnic Padaung "long-neck" people from   military-ruled Myanmar have enjoyed relative peace and security   as refugees in the hills of northern Thailand.
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In a picturesque village of bamboo huts near China&#39;s border with Burma, 37-year-old Sha Wang complains he has been sick for over a year.
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Myanmar's military junta extended the house arrest of opposition leader and Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi for yet another year on Friday, ignoring international pleas for her release, a government source said.
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Millions of Iraqi refugees fleeing violence and sectarian cleansing after the U.S.-led invasion four years ago are finding it nearly impossible to get safe harbor in America, including those who risked their lives helping President George W. Bush's war effort.
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QUETTA, Pakistan  - Pakistani authorities have put off plans to shut down one of the oldest camps for Afghan refugees, saying its inhabitants have refused to go home or to be relocated, a government official said.
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STOCKHOLM, Aug 6 (IPS) - Rejected Afghan and Iraqi asylum-seekers have  launched nationwide protest against a stricter migration policy.
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Despite an order from Myanmarâs junta to stay out of politics, Buddhist monks returned to the streets today.
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Myanmar has arrested almost 100 dissidents since it promised a UN envoy there would be no more detentions, according to Amnesty International.
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In a rare departure from its usual diplomatic restraint, the International Red Cross denounced Myanmar's military government Friday, saying it commits abuses against civilians and detainees that cause "immense suffering."
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Exiled - National Coalition of Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB) on 30 November strongly denounced Burmaâs military junta, State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) for extending the house arrest of democracy leader and Nobel laureate Daw Aung
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More than half the survivors still living in refugee camps since last year's killer South Asian earthquake can't go home because they don't have land to return to, according to a new U.N.-backed survey that underlines one of the last hurdles facing recovery efforts.