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Dempsey was offered a tempting job—establishing a hospital for Palestinian refugees on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives—but the Mortensons decided it was time for their children to experience America.†
Chpt 4 *

refugees = people who fled their homeland
Exhausted refugees, fleeing the fighting, were flowing east in equal numbers, and straining the capacity of muddy camps on the margin of Peshawar.†
Chpt 13
Apo Razak, a refugee from Indian-occupied Kashmir, was a Sunni, as was Suleman.†
Chpt 15

refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
Returning to Peshawar, the city that continued to fascinate him, Mortenson toured the refugee camps that strained to feed, shelter, and educate hundreds of thousands, now that the Taliban's ruthless brand of fundamentalist Islam had conquered most of Afghanistan.†
Chpt 16
But at the Shamshatoo Refugee Camp, southwest of Peshawar, he organized eighty teachers, who held classes for four thousand Afghan students, and agreed to see that their salaries were paid as long as the refugees remained in Pakistan.†
Chpt 16
But at the Shamshatoo Refugee Camp, southwest of Peshawar, he organized eighty teachers, who held classes for four thousand Afghan students, and agreed to see that their salaries were paid as long as the refugees remained in Pakistan.†
Chpt 16

refugees = people who fled their homeland
Streams of refugees from the fighting were crossing the high passes on foot and approaching Skardu, exhausted, injured, and badly in need of services no one in Baltistan was equipped to provide.†
Chpt 17
The men questioned Mortenson closely about his work and nodded in approval when they learned he was educating four thousand Sunni Afghan refugees in Peshawar as well as the Shia children of Baltistan.†
Chpt 17
No one knew how many villagers had been killed or maimed by Indian bombs and artillery, but already two thousand refugees had arrived in Skardu, and thousands of others were waiting out the worst of the fighting in caves, before coming to join them.†
Chpt 17
Syed Abbas said he had contacted the Northern Areas Administration and the United Nations' High Commission for Refugees and both had refused his pleas for help.†
Chpt 17
And the UN said they couldn't come to the aid of the Gultori families fleeing the fighting since they were internally displaced refugees who hadn't fled across international borders.†
Chpt 17
They left the road, took their shoes off, and as the French-made Mirage fighters of Pakistan's air force screamed overhead on patrol, they walked over a dozen dunes toward the refugees.†
Chpt 17
The refugees had been shunted to the only land in Skardu no one wanted.†
Chpt 17
Just as the Torah and Bible teach concern for those in distress, the Koran instructs all Muslims to make caring for widows, orphans, and refugees a priority.†
Chpt 17
Apo, himself a refugee whose ancestral home, Dras, abuts the Gultori, on the Indian side of the border, wandered from tent to tent, taking orders for urgently needed supplies.†
Chpt 17

refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
Within a few months, we may have four or five thousand refugees to deal with.†
Chpt 17

refugees = people who fled their homeland
At her desk, in the fifth-grade classroom of the Gultori Girls Refugee School, which the Central Asia Institute constructed on sand dunes by the Skardu airport in the summer of 1999, at the height of the Kargil Conflict, Fatima Batool, fifteen, lets her white shawl fall over her face, taking refuge within the fabric from too many questions.†
Chpt 17

refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
Fifth-grade students at the Gultori Girls Refugee School, like Fatima and Nargiz, lag behind most of their peers.†
Chpt 17
Their brothers walk an hour each way to the government boys' schools in surrounding villages that took most of the male refugee students in.†
Chpt 17
In recent years, some of the refugees have returned to the Gultori, to the two schools the Central Asia Institute has since established there, carved into caves, so that students will be safe from the shells that can still rain down from India whenever relations between the two countries chill.†
Chpt 17

refugees = people who fled their homeland
As images he'd taken just a month earlier, of Fatima, Nargiz, and their classmates, smiling over their textbooks in the newly built Gultori Girls Refugee School, flashed across the screen, Mortenson noticed a professorial-looking middle-aged male customer leaning around a corner, trying to unobtrusively study a display of multifunction digital watches.†
Chpt 18

refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
On islands in the middle of the Amu Darya River, these refugees scooped out mud huts and were slowly starving, eating grasses that grew by the riverbank out of desperation.†
Chpt 18

refugees = people who fled their homeland
While they sickened and died, Taliban soldiers shot at them for sport, firing their rocket-propelled grenades up in great arcs until they'd come crashing down among the terrified refugees.†
Chpt 18
I even started fantasizing about picking up an AK-47, getting Faisal Baig to round up some men, and crossing over to Afghanistan to fight for the refugees myself.†
Chpt 18
In war, God is on the side of refugees, widows, and orphans.†
Chpt 18
Mortenson thought of this man's neighbors to the west, the ten thousand refugees stranded on islands of the Amu Darya River that he'd failed.†
Chpt 19
But Mortenson needed to visit the schools CAI funded in the refugee camps outside Peshawar and see if they had the capacity to deal with the influx of new refugees the fighting was sure to send their way.†
Chpt 20

refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
But Mortenson needed to visit the schools CAI funded in the refugee camps outside Peshawar and see if they had the capacity to deal with the influx of new refugees the fighting was sure to send their way.†
Chpt 20

refugees = people who fled their homeland
Together, they visited the Shamshatoo Refugee Camp and the nearly one hundred CAI-supported teachers who were struggling to work there under almost impossible conditions.†
Chpt 20

refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
The Afghan children flocking to refugee camps with their families were victims, Mortenson argued, deserving our sympathy.†
Chpt 20
Also, we pay teachers in Afghan refugee camps to hold class where there aren't any schools.†
Chpt 20
The interviews he'd given at the Marriot, his trip to the refugee camps with Bruce Finley, and a letter he'd e-mailed to his friend, Seattle Post Intelligencer columnist Joel Connelly, urging sympathy for the innocent Muslims caught in the crossfire, had been picked up by dozens of American newspapers during his absence.†
Chpt 20
But as he read accounts of increasing civilian casualties, and heard details during phone calls to his staff in the Afghan refugee camps about the numbers of children who were being killed when they mistakenly picked up the bright yellow pods of unexploded cluster bombs, which closely resembled the yellow military food packets American planes were also dropping as a humanitarian gesture, his attitude began to change.†
Chpt 21
But he knew that many of the civilians under America's bomb sights were children who had attended CAI-sponsored classes in the Shamshatoo Camp near Peshawar, before their families had tired of the harsh refugee life and returned to Afghanistan.†
Chpt 21
And after the misery of Kabul and the refugee camp, Mortenson looked forward to visiting familiar Skardu.†
Chpt 21

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(1) (refugee)
someone who has fled their homeland to getaway from a dangerous or difficult situation; or related to such people
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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