The stream of flight became a torrent.

About half the population had fled their homes and the economy had been destroyed.

In addition, people flee from the fighting and hide in the environs of their homes.

During the first part of 2005, about 680 persons, including some 50 children, fled their homes.

Other ethnic groups were also being forced to flee their homes to escape the torture and brutalities systematically carried out by the Abkhaz authorities.

Get off my place now.

In West Africa, the crises in Sierra Leone and Guinea Bissau forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes.

How far is the garden from your house?

(ii) Displacement of the population

There, the categorizing of those who flee their homes as refugees or internally displaced persons is not very significant, given that all those who flee try to reach the nearest secure area, irrespective of the status they will acquire in doing so.

The people are frightened. Some are beginning to leave their homes.

In 2003, over 3 million persons were newly internally displaced by conflict and over 300,000 prima facie refugees fled their homes en masse.

There, the categorization of those who flee their homes into refugees, internally displaced or other groups is not very significant, given that all those who flee try to reach the nearest secure area, irrespective of the status they will acquire in doing so.

He resigned and fled the country.

Again, close coordination with other agencies is the best indeed, the only way to meet the needs of all those who have been made to flee their homes and forced to settle, temporarily, in makeshift dwellings, eagerly awaiting their return home.

People had left their homes without informing the Government.

(Man) Sadly people leave their homes.

Some journalists have fled their home states or even the country.

And he has fled the country, no doubt?

Other nationalities, including Russians, Armenians, Greeks and Estonians, had also been forced to flee their homes, as they escaped the torture and brutality systematically carried out by the Abkhaz authorities.

In addition, it is believed that the majority of the up to 3.2 million southern Sudanese who have fled their homes over the past two decades are intending to return once the situation allows.

The conflict in Colombia continues to generate new displacement, with more than 138,000 Colombians having fled their homes last year in search of safety elsewhere in the country.

The mobility of labour produced by communications makes displacement or expectations of displacement possible, at least in theory.

In Nepal, stringent criteria for registration of the internally displaced has resulted in most of the estimated 200,000 who have fled their homes not being formally recognized as displaced and not able to access assistance.

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Such disasters can trigger irregular migration as people are suddenly uprooted from their homes and forced to flee, either internally or to neighbouring countries, thus increasing the impact of such movements.

This represents 10 per cent of those who fled or were forced to flee the violence in 1999.

The Agony and the Exodus

He's trying to run away from you.

Uprooted from their homes and livelihoods, and traumatized by the violence or sudden disaster that forced them to flee, the displaced are often thrust into an extremely precarious future with few resources. Think of the 15 million Chinese displaced following the Sichuan earthquake, the more than two million Iraqis uprooted within their country s borders by sectarian and other violence, the 2.4 million displaced in Darfur, or the hundreds of thousands who have fled Mogadishu in the last year.

It destroyed 220,000 homes and displaced 572,000 individuals.

In addition, up to 50,000 IDPs could return home.

Return and reintegration of displaced persons

Roughly half of those who have fled have also left the country, implying two million refugees. This leaves another two million who have been displaced internally, and who represent an emerging humanitarian tragedy.

The ongoing armed conflict between Government forces and non State armed groups of the various ethnic minority communities, combined with the perpetration of systematic and grave human rights violations have resulted in significant numbers of people fleeing their homes and becoming internally displaced persons and refugees.

Get out of it, get it out.

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I'm running away.