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GEORGIA - INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT - MOTHER, DAUGHTERS, FAMILY

 

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/08/13/world/13cnd_georgia.6.html

 

Justyna Mielnikiewicz for The New York Times


The family of Ramiashvili Giorgi, left, fleeing Gori, Georgia, on the back of the truck.

 

 

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UNHCR - UN Refugee Agency

Full Text: http://www.unhcr.org/news/NEWS/48a17ec64.html

 

GEORGIA & SOUTH OSSETIA

 

Government sources suggest that some 100,000 people have been uprooted by the ongoing conflict. Up to 12,000 people could be displaced within South Ossetia, say local authorities. Russian officials in North Ossetia indicate that there are some 30,000 people from South Ossetia now in the Russian Federation. Georgian authorities report that several thousand people have fled from South Ossetia into Georgia proper.

There are also reports of population movements within Georgia proper. In Gori, just south of South Ossetia, local officials told a visiting UNHCR team on Sunday that up to 80 percent of the population – some 56,000 people – had left. They said most had gone towards Tbilisi but would return once the threat eased.


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