All 3 Uses of
refugee
in
The Perils of Indifference
- The political prisoner in his cell, the hungry children, the homeless refugees -- not to respond to their plight, not to relieve their solitude by offering them a spark of hope is to exile them from human memory.†
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- Why didn't he allow these refugees to disembark?†
- And then, of course, the joint decision of the United States and NATO to intervene in Kosovo and save those victims, those refugees, those who were uprooted by a man whom I believe that because of his crimes, should be charged with crimes against humanity.†
Definition:
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(refugee) someone who has fled their homeland to getaway from a dangerous or difficult situation; or related to such people