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237 “Juking” means getting revenge on someone
through nefarious means.
238 Letter from Buduburam Neighborhood Watch
Team (Aug. 13, 2007) (on file with the author).
The Ghanaian police inspector on the camp
generally confirmed this sentiment, noting that the
Neighborhood Watch Team (NEWAT) had been
established after a crime wave of armed robberies
and other forms of intimidation. Interview with
Chief Inspector G.K. Agyei, Ghanaian Police,
Buduburam, Ghana (Oct. 4, 2007).
239 Interview with Chief Inspector G.K. Agyei,
Ghanaian Police, Buduburam, Ghana (Oct. 4, 2007).
240 See, e.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 292 (noting
that there have been murders in the camp).
241 For example, legendary rebel fighter-turnedevangelist
General Butt-Naked is often seen in
Buduburam. Moreover, ex-combatants and former
child soldiers have formed their own communitybased-organization,
and many are well-known to the
camp residents.
242 TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 149, 855.
243 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 215.
244 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 78.
245 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 428.
246 E.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 156, 136, 221,
386, 389, 438, 582, 608, 753, 784, 1123, 1153, 1487,
1529, 1639, 1654.
247 See generally Interview with Diana DuBois, Exec.
Dir., Minn. Int’l Health Volunteers (July 15, 2008)
(describing the difficulty of getting funding to
continue an International Red Cross program
in Buduburam as early as 1995 because of donor
fatigue).
248 diCk, resPonding to ProtrACted refugee
situAtions, supra note 207, at 15, 18-19; TRC
Diaspora Statement Rec. 53 (noting that his food
rations had stopped after the election of Charles
Taylor).
249 diCk, resPonding to ProtrACted refugee
situAtions, supra note 207, at 15, 18-19.
250 Id. UNHCR notes that the reason water was cut off
was that refugees left the taps on continuously. Id.
Camp residents dispute this information, noting that
piped water was only ever available in three of the
camp “zones.” Residents note that water was shut
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off to the camp because there was a national water
shortage in Ghana and UNHCR took advantage
of the situation to stop providing water. Moreover,
water was coming from hand pumps, which cannot
be left “on.” E.g., Email communication from
Eugene Sekpeh, WFP/NCS/UNHCR Food Aid
Distribution Coordinator, to The Advocates for
Human Rights (July 12, 2008, 10:33 AM CST);
Email communication from Eugene Sekpeh, WFP/
NCS/UNHCR Food Aid Distribution Coordinator,
to The Advocates for Human Rights (July 14, 2008,
10:33 AM CST).
251 diCk, resPonding to ProtrACted refugee
252
situAtions, supra note 207, at 15, 18-19.
Id.
253 Id. at 20.
254 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 742.
255 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 392 (“Time is wasting
in Ghana.”); TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 427 (“I
have no money, no education that would allow me to
make money, and I have wasted so much time at the
camp”); TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 630 (“I am
unhappy because I feel that my life has been a waste.
I feel frustrated about being stranded in the camp
and about being robbed of the adult life I would
have had had there been no war.”); see also, e.g., TRC
Diaspora Statement Recs. 509, 512, 585, 586, 422,
515, 630, 671, 931, 1708.
256 diCk, resPonding to ProtrACted refugee
257
situAtions, supra note 207, at 16.
E.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 1016, 1020,
1025, 1292.
258 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 480.
259 E.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 265, 281, 282,
387, 463, 468, etc. 66, 288, 424, 463, 934, 1139, 50,
246, 688, 716, 933, 1127, 1149, 1522, 767, 45, 49, 50,
55, 155, 157, 212, 249, 251, 280, 300, 325, 336, 422,
438, 442, 453, 464, 470, 489, 599, 613, 657, 755, 932,
958, 1113, 1240, 1398, 1495, 1522, 1716.
260 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 157.
261 E.g., TRC Diaspora Statement Recs. 498 and 309.
262 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 238.
263 Id.
264 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 589.
265 TRC Diaspora Statement Rec. 730.