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Victims of War: children haunted by hunger, by horror, by poverty in refugee camps in Afghan., Pakistan, Sri Lanka

By WcP.Observer - Posted on 09 July 2009

the young boy is one of tens of thousands of refugees who've been forced to leave their homes in southern Afghanistan and seek safer havens in and around Kabul, mostly in refugee camps run by the United Nations

According to UNHCR, 2.1 million Afghan refugees were reported in 72 asylum countries; UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visits the camps for displaced persons in northern Sri Lanka; Red Cross: refugee status in Sri Lanka "very critical"

Left: more than 200,000 refugees are facing ‘very critical’ circumstances in northern Sri Lanka in the aftermath of the recent war; Right: mother and child at Afghanistan refugee camp

a girl stands next to her tent as wind and rain pass through the tent city at Jalozai camp on June 2, 2009, 15km from Peshawar, Pakistan

elderly man holding baby

Pakistani children wait for hours in line for dinner at the Yar Hussain camp June 1, 2009 in Swabi, Pakistan

a girl stands next to her tent as wind and rain pound the massive tent city June 2, 2009 at Jalozai camp, 15km from Peshawar, Pakistan

internally displaced children scramble to get a piece of ice being handed out by aid workers at the Chota Lahore relief camp on May 20, 2009 in Swabi, Pakistan

a Pakistani girl peers over part of a makeshift tent in Chota Lahore Refugee Camp in Swabi, Pakistan on Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Photos courtesy of Manoocher Deghati / IRIN, Zohreh Soleimani, topnews.in, Paula Bronstein / Getty Images, utexas.edu, Daniel Berehulak / Getty Images, and AP Photo / Emilio Morenatti

Original Source: Boston Globe, About.com, TopNews.in, Trends Updates, and World Humanitarian Aid

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