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For decades, Rwanda's governments had refused to repatriate those refugees, and like most countries where exiles tried to make new homes, Uganda didn't want them either.†
Chpt 1.7

refugees = people who fled their homeland
The newspaper was distributed, Deo had heard, by a Burundian Hutu-power group, outlawed by Burundi's Tutsi government and headquartered in refugee camps in Tanzania.†
Chpt 1.7

refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
Hutu refugees were returning, some with their Ten Commandments memorized, many with bitter, horrifying memories of 1972 preserved.†
Chpt 1.7 *

refugees = people who fled their homeland
With difficulty — for a while it looked as if he might be deported — James O'Malley had argued a judge into granting Deo refugee status, but he was still waiting for permanent residency, for his green card.†
Chpt 1.8

refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
He dialed the house full of internal refugees in Bujumbura, as usual, and the voice of a bus driver named Pierre answered.†
Chpt 1.8

refugees = people who fled their homeland
Weeks of phone calls followed, to Bujumbura from the sidewalks of Harlem, from Nancy and Charlie's loft to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees.†
Chpt 1.8
But his parents really were alive, in a refugee camp in Tanzania.†
Chpt 1.8

refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
He had only narrowly won refugee status.†
Chpt 1.8
As his lawyer, James, pointed out, the immigration service might well refuse to readmit a refugee who went back to the place he had supposedly fled.†
Chpt 1.8
He didn't see the little band of refugees again.†
Chpt 1.9

refugees = people who fled their homeland
Clearly the men on the riverbank were looking for Tutsis among the refugees.†
Chpt 1.9
They pointed toward the main group of refugees, milling about in the field.†
Chpt 1.9
The Burundian refugees were herded, loosely, into fields and woods, not camps with tents or any other kind of shelter, though occasionally someone would construct a traditional lean-to.†
Chpt 1.9
The initials stood for "United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees."†
Chpt 1.9
He couldn't tell for sure which, if any, of his fellow refugees were Tutsis.†
Chpt 1.9
Occasionally, Interahamwe would hang around with groups of refugees, around a campfire or a tree.†
Chpt 1.9
Keeping to the peripheries, never saying a word, he'd hear militiamen tell the refugees that the RPF, that army of Tutsi cockroaches from Uganda, was moving close, slaughtering Hutus.†
Chpt 1.9
They said that the RPF had spies among them, right here, in these very refugee camps.†
Chpt 1.9

refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
He figured the militiamen were trying to scare the Burundian Hutu refugees, many of whom were already bitter and militant, judging from their talk.†
Chpt 1.9

refugees = people who fled their homeland
Some of the refugees would sit around angrily denouncing the "cockroaches," and one or another of the Rwandan militiamen would say, "Someday things will be fine.†
Chpt 1.9
And in every group like that, he noticed that some refugees, usually older people, sat silently with their heads bowed or made small movements — a slight shift of posture, a pursing of the lips — which he took as signs they disapproved.†
Chpt 1.9
When the United Nations trucks arrived with food, the refugees would get in lines, and sometimes they would fight, and sometimes Rwandan militiamen would intervene.†
Chpt 1.9
He would wonder sometimes whether a fellow refugee was a Tutsi or Hutu, but it didn't feel safe even to think about that, and life seemed even more miserable when he did.†
Chpt 1.9

refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
Twice it was other refugees who initiated the moves, saying the place where they were camped had grown too crowded.†
Chpt 1.9

refugees = people who fled their homeland
Several times he sensed that some of the other refugees were eyeing him.†
Chpt 1.9
So when a group of refugees decided to move, he'd insinuate himself among them.†
Chpt 1.9
Instead of taking Deo toward Burundi, he drove north and dropped Deo off at another makeshift outdoor refugee camp, not far from a paved road.†
Chpt 1.9

refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
Some time later — days or weeks, perhaps — Deo was sleeping with other refugees in yet another open field, in utter darkness, under a drizzling sky.†
Chpt 1.9

refugees = people who fled their homeland
The refugee camp started to scatter.†
Chpt 1.9

refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
When more men in trucks came by offering the refugees rides to Murambi, Deo made himself scarce.†
Chpt 1.9

refugees = people who fled their homeland
The next thing Deo knew, the next thing he would remember being aware of, his little crowd of refugees had disappeared, and he was on a hillside, and all around him people were running, propelled, it seemed, by screams from the town to the east.†
Chpt 1.9
He would wait until they were out of sight and then wait a little longer, remembering stories he'd heard, in his last refugee camp, of militiamen pretending to flee so as to lure Tutsis out of hiding.†
Chpt 1.9

refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
Clearly, the Tutsi army had heard that Tutsis were being slaughtered wholesale in Rwanda, and had known that refugees would be flocking to the border.†
Chpt 1.9

refugees = people who fled their homeland
Evidently, they had come in force to keep the Rwandan army from blocking the Tutsi refugees: to help people like him.†
Chpt 1.9
The truck Deo rode in to Bujumbura was packed with refugees.†
Chpt 1.9
The refugees were pressed together in the middle and nervous teenage soldiers surrounded them, their rifles pointing out at the thickly wooded mountainsides.†
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

refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
Our friend told Deo he should talk to my wife, because she was interested in refugees, and just like that, Deo began to tell a fragment of his story.†
Chpt 2.10

refugees = people who fled their homeland
The refugees and the example of the new Rwandan state terrified Tutsi elites.†
Chpt 2.13
The mass killings of Hutus in Burundi reaffirmed long-standing fears and anti-Tutsi prejudice among Rwandan Hutus, further strengthened the position of the ruling faction, and inspired massacres of Rwandan Tutsis and more flights of Tutsi refugees into Burundi.†
Chpt 2.13
Meanwhile, Hutu and Tutsi refugees outside Burundi and Rwanda became some of the principal and angriest keepers of the memories of massacre and injustice, and their camps became staging areas for opposition movements — most consequentially, settlements of Rwandan Tutsis in Uganda and of Burundian Hutus in Tanzania.†
Chpt 2.13
By 2006, most of the refugees had returned, forced back by the government of Tanzania and by civil war in what was then called Zaire.†
Chpt 2.13
His father had come all but undone during their several years as refugees, and the nightmarish years of civil war they endured after returning to Burundi, and the loss of practically everything they had worked for all their lives, including most of their cows.†
Chpt 2.16
It was his mother, Deo heard, who had managed almost everything in the years after she and his father returned from the refugee camps and settled in Kayanza.†
Chpt 2.16

refugee = someone who fled their homeland; or related to such people
He didn't know exactly what his parents had endured in their trek across the mountains to Tanzania, in the refugee camps across the border, in the woods around Kayanza where they often had to hide.†
Chpt 2.16
Of course there was no trace from the air of the refugee camps, just over the border in Rwanda, where he had languished fearfully for months.†
Chpt 2.17
There was also an old transistor radio of the kind Deo remembered seeing Rwandan militiamen carrying next to their ears as they walked around refugee camps.†
Chpt 2.17
In Deo's view, the critique contained far too little appreciation for the government's accomplishments — rebuilding institutions virtually from scratch, repatriating about two million refugees, providing security for a traumatized population in the face of persistent armed attacks from genocidal forces in exile.†
Chpt 2.18

refugees = people who fled their homeland
Mahmood Mamdani and others write that the fact of the invasion — its violence, the masses of internal refugees it created — was probably a temporary boon to the government, lending it legitimacy and popular support.†
Chpt Hist
The assassination of Ndadaye in Burundi in 1993 — and the arrival in Rwanda of hundreds of thousands of Burundian Hutu refugees — gave anti-Tutsi propagandists additional material for articles in Kangura and broadcasts on Rwanda's hate radio.†
Chpt Hist

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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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