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  • Photograph of a small boat

    1. UNHCR/ K. Gaugler

    A small boat containing 162 Vietnamese refugees arrives in Malaysia in 1978.

  • Photograph of a convoy in Pakistan

    2. UNHCR/ R.Colville

    A convoy of 114 returnee families crosses the 4,600m high Sarehouse pass in 1997 en route from Pakistan to Afghanistan, despite the continuing problems in their homeland.

  • Photograph of Sri Lankans IDPs at a relief centre

    3. UNHCR/ M. Kobayashi

    Internally displaced Sri Lankans in one of country’s former UNHCR-supported ‘open relief centres’ in the Mannar district in 1999.

  • Photograph of Kabul in 1996, the most devastated capital city in the world

    4. UNHCR/ R. LeMoyne

    Afghanistan has experienced waves of conflict and forced migration since 1979, resulting in one of the world’s largest refugee populations and Kabul being the most devastated capital city in the world (1996).

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