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refugee
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A Long Way Gone
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It wasn't until refugees started passing through our town that we began to see that it was actually taking place in our country.†
p. 5.1 *

refugees = people who fled their homeland
Some people felt sorry for them and offered them places to stay, but most of the refugees refused, because they said the war would eventually reach our town.†
p. 5.4
My imagination at ten years old didn't have the capacity to grasp what had taken away the happiness of the refugees.†
p. 6.1
But after a week the stream of refugees from that direction ceased and news dried up.†
p. 15.2
I had heard that the Sierra Leonean ambassador let refugees sleep temporarily in the compound of the embassy, but I had no idea where the embassy itself was located.†
p. 216.1

Definitions:

(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)