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- The beggars you saw in cities like Bujumbura were mainly displaced country people who had lost their pride.†
Chpt 1.2 *displaced = forced to move
- When he had left Bujumbura, a close friend from medical school named Claude had been living in an apartment with other displaced young men.†
Chpt 1.2
- Over it one day, Deo heard a Rwandan official declaring that displaced people should go to a town called Murambi.†
Chpt 1.9
- A day or two later, a fleet of Toyota trucks drove by, men standing in the beds blowing whistles, shouting through bullhorns, saying that displaced people should go to the school in Murambi.†
Chpt 1.9
- Bujumbura had become a city of refugee cows, pastured in impromptu United Nations camps for the internally displaced, and also lowing on streetcorners, trudging along on sidewalks, herded into narrow vacant lots behind gas stations.†
Chpt 1.9
- But much was strange to me, especially the bicyclists with sheaves of fresh-cut grass heaped on their backs, processions of them bringing fodder for the herds of cows that milled around the tents and makeshift huts in the urban camps of the internally displaced.†
Chpt 2.13
- All these are internally displaced cows.†
Chpt 2.13
Definitions:
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(1)
(displace) force to move; or to take the place of
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)