Despite peacekeepers, East Timor's refugees stay in squalid camps
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More than two months after battalions of foreign troops arrived in East Timor to restore calm, tens of thousands of refugees are still living in grim camps, saying they are too terrified to return home.
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Human rights experts call them "prisoners of conscience." Hundreds of them around the world are forced to live in deplorable conditions in jail cells and prison camps.
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In this teeming refugee camp in Indonesia's Banda Aceh, a squat security post has become a shrine to the missing and a meeting point to seek information in a distraught city where none seems to exist.
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The US prison camp for foreign fighters and terror suspects in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, still suffers from inhumane conditions and treatment, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.
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Dozens of Palestinians detained while leaving a besieged refugee camp in Lebanon have complained of abuse by the Lebanese army, ranging from beatings to some cases of sexual abuse, human and civil rights activists say.
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UN police and international peacekeepers have continued the hunt for East Timor's rebel military leader Major Alfredo Reinado as New Zealand denied it was responsible for guarding the prison from which he escaped.
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More than 25,000 families are still homeless in the Indonesian province of Aceh, nearly two years on from the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, a leading aid agency said.
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East Timor's president appealed for calm and international troops patrolled the streets of Dili on Monday, a day after troops fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse rampaging youths.
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Fierce gunbattles raged in East Timor&#039;s capital Thursday, killing at least three people and wounding more than a dozen, as international troops arrived in the tiny nation to help it quell a rebellion by disgruntled ex-soldiers.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- One in eight children in Indonesia's Aceh province are malnourished, disease still stalks refugee camps, and relief deliveries are erratic more than a month after a tsunami devastated the region, UN officials said yesterday.
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Stone-throwing youths attacked refugee camps and torched homes in East Timor, raising tensions as thousands of supporters of ex-premier Mari Alkatiri waited outside the capital Dili.
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U.S. helicopters shuttled injured refugees, many of them children, out of some of the worst hit parts of tsunami-devastated Aceh province, even as reports surfaced of trafficking in orphans from the disaster.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. helicopters shuttled  injured refugees, many of them children, out of some of the  worst hit parts of tsunami-devastated Aceh province, even as  reports surfaced of trafficking in orphans from the disaster.
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Indonesian security forces have used torture and inhumane treatment to force confessions from suspected separatists and their sympathizers in the province of Aceh, where the government and rebels have fought a long-running conflict, a human rights group alleges in a report to be released Monday.
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Haggard survivors of fighting in southern Darfur, thorns stuck to their bloody feet, straggled into this refugee community before dawn Wednesday and told harrowing
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GENEVA  - Many refugees in Sudan&#39;s war-torn Darfur region still live in a climate of fear and are reluctant to return home as they don&#39;t trust the government to protect them, the UN&#39;s human rights chief said Saturday.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - In this teeming refugee  camp in Indonesia's Banda Aceh, a squat security post has  become a shrine to the missing and a meeting point to seek  information in a distraught city where none seems to exist.