Displacement
Rohingya youth hunger for education
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010KUTUPALONG, 10 November 2010 (IRIN) – Ask any one of the 18,000 Rohingya youth at two government-run refugee camps in Bangladesh what they want most, the answer is unequivocally the same: education.
“Our future is blind without education,” said Sayed Alam, a lifelong resident of Kutupalong camp, one of two official camps set up to house [...]
Displaced Timorese head home
Friday, April 2nd, 2010AFP METINARO, East Timor June 2009 — On a sweltering day at a camp for displaced people outside East Timor’s capital, children play excitedly in the dust as their parents pack their meagre possessions for the trip home.
A girl holds up a fragment of a DVD — “Rambo” — a reminder of how more than [...]
East Timor begins closure of last displaced persons camp
Friday, April 2nd, 2010AFP DILI June 17, 2009 — East Timor began emptying its last remaining camp for thousands of internally displaced people Wednesday, more than three years after unrest drove an estimated 100,000 people from their homes.
Aid workers started dismantling the Metinaro camp on the outskirts of the capital after more than 700 families agreed to accept [...]
Returning IDPs rejected by villagers
Friday, April 2nd, 2010DILI, 11 May 2009 (IRIN) – Most of the people displaced in Timor-Leste by the violence of 2006 have returned home but for many, the biggest obstacle, apart from rebuilding their homes and lives, is making peace with the communities they left behind.
In April 2006, disaffected army troops clashed with pro-government soldiers in the capital [...]
Dili’s displaced face renewed delays
Friday, April 2nd, 2010DILI, 23 March 2009 (IRIN) – Residents of the last remaining camp for the internally displaced (IDPs) will have to wait a little longer to go home after the tentative return date of 12 March was pushed back.
In April 2006, disaffected army troops clashed with pro-government troops in Dili, triggering violence that forced up to [...]
Sri Lanka: No Return
Friday, April 2nd, 2010In a bid to flee the fighting in Sri Lanka, ethnic Tamil Justin Fernando, 39, washed up on the shores of Timor Leste. But instead of starting a new life as a refugee he was duped out of his savings and left destitute in a country he now desperately wants to leave. From the small [...]