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  • Photograph of refugees from Eastern Europe in 1953

    1. UNHCR

    These refugees from Eastern Europe in a camp in Germany in 1953 were amongst millions of people who were homeless after the Second World War.

  • Photograph of Bengali refugees in 1971

    2. UNHCR/WFP/T. Page

    Some 10 million Bengali refugees who fled to India in 1971 were accommodated in one of 800 camps, before most of them returned to Bangladesh within a year.

  • Photograph of Bengali refugees in 1971

    3. UNHCR/A. Hollmann

    Kibumba refugee camp in the Goma region of Zaire (now DRC) where some 200,000 Rwandan refugees were residing in 1994.

  • Photograph of Bengali refugees in 1971

    4. UNHCR/A. Hollmann

    An aerial view of Dakhla camp for Sahrawi refugees in the Tindouf region of Algeria in 1998.

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