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Refugee Registration, UNHCR news stories, Mar.<br />

3, 2005, http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/<br />

home/opendoc.htm?tbl=NEWS&id=4227260c4&p<br />

age=news.<br />

170 U.N. High Comm’r <strong>for</strong> Refugees, supra note 2, at<br />

400-01 (listing the total number of Liberian refugees<br />

in 1996 at 784,008).<br />

171 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 428. See also TRC<br />

Diaspora Statement Rec. 843; Abuses at Home and<br />

Across Borders, supra note 5, at 2.<br />

172 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 428.<br />

173 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 588.<br />

174 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 165.<br />

175 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 223.<br />

176 Id.<br />

177 U.N. High Comm’r <strong>for</strong> Refugees, stAtistiCAl<br />

yeArbook, supra note 2, at 400-01.<br />

178 Rachel Goldstein-Rodriguez, Biggest Convoy to Date<br />

Heads Back to Lofa County, Liberia, unHCr news<br />

stories, Mar. 21, 2005, http://www.unhcr.org/<br />

news/NEWS/423ecca94.html.<br />

179 Liberian refugees relocated in neighboring countries, unHCr<br />

news stories, May 1, 2002, http://www.unhcr.org/<br />

news/NEWS/3cd00df24.html.<br />

180 West Africa Update, unHCr Country uPdAtes,<br />

Mar. 7, 2002, http://www.unhcr.org/news/<br />

NEWS/3c8762c64.html.<br />

181 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1408.<br />

182 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 32.<br />

183 E.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 15, 65, 707.<br />

184 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 707.<br />

185 Id.<br />

186 UNHCR, stAtistiCAl yeArbook, supra note 2, at 400-<br />

01.; UNHCR, 2005 unHCr stAtistiCAl yeArbook:<br />

sierrA leone 486-87 (April 2007), http://www.<br />

unhcr.org/statistics/STATISTICS/4641bec111.pdf.<br />

187 U.N. High Comm’r <strong>for</strong> Refugees, stAtistiCAl<br />

yeArbook, supra note 2, at 400-401 (Liberia), 486-87<br />

(Sierra Leone).<br />

188 diCk, <strong>for</strong>Ced migrAtion online, supra note 30, §<br />

3.1.1.<br />

189 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1556.<br />

190 Statement of Anonymous, Truth & Reconciliation<br />

Comm’n of Liberia Palava Hut Meeting (June 16,<br />

380<br />

2007, Clarkston, Ga., U.S.A.) (notes on file <strong>with</strong><br />

author).<br />

191 Id.<br />

192 Id.<br />

193 Elizabeth Blunt, Civil War Fears in Guinea, bbC news,<br />

October 23, 2000, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/<br />

africa/986375.stm, (describing cross border attacks<br />

from both Sierra Leone and Liberia); Guinea Crisis<br />

‘Worst in World,’ bbC news, Jan. 24, 2001, http://<br />

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1132796.stm.<br />

194 TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 206, 379, 412, 647,<br />

676, 749, 1285, 1637.<br />

195 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 1637.<br />

196 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 206.<br />

197 Abuses at Home and Across Borders, supra note 5, at 7.<br />

198 jeff CrisP, tHe Center <strong>for</strong> ComPArAtive<br />

immigrAtion studies, no solution in sigHt: tHe<br />

Problem of ProtrACted refugee situAtions in<br />

AfriCA 14, http://www.ccis-ucsd.org/publications/<br />

wrkg68.pdf (2002) (citation omitted).<br />

199 Id. at 16.<br />

200 Id. at 10.<br />

201 UNHCR, stAtistiCAl yeArbook, supra note 2, at<br />

400-01.<strong>The</strong>re are two camps <strong>for</strong> Liberian refugees in<br />

Ghana, Buduburam and Krisan-Senzolli. <strong>The</strong> vast<br />

majority of refugees settled in Buduburam. Numbers<br />

at Krisan are estimated to be less than 2,000.<br />

202 Interview <strong>with</strong> Varney Sambola, Chairman, Liberian<br />

Refugee Welfare Council, Buduburam, Ghana (Oct.<br />

4, 2007).<br />

203 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 306; see also TRC<br />

Diaspora Statement Rec. 585.<br />

204 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 587.<br />

205 A small population of Sierra Leonean refugees also<br />

lives in Buduburam.<br />

206 U.N. High Commissioner <strong>for</strong> Refugees, UNHCR’s<br />

Position on the Treatment of Liberian Asylum<br />

Seekers and Return to Liberia, Aug. 3, 2005, http://<br />

www.unhcr.se/Pdf/protect/Position_Liberia.pdf.<br />

207 sHelly diCk, unHCr evAluAtion And PoliCy<br />

unit, resPonding to ProtrACted refugee<br />

situAtions: A CAse study of liberiAn refugees in<br />

gHAnA 25-27 (2002), [hereinafter diCk, resPonding<br />

to ProtrACted refugee situAtions] http://www.<br />

unhcr.org/research/RESEARCH/3d40059b4.pdf.

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