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Map 5.3: Ongoing displacement in the Hunza valley following the 2010 Attabad landslideArea buried by the landslideSettlementMaximum flooded area, July 2010Batura Glacier0 5 kmShimshal Riv eKarakoram highwayrFlooded portion of Karakoram highwayPasuTURKMENISTANTAJ IKIS TANCHINAPasuGlacier!BorithKharamabadAFGHANISTAN!Jammu &KashmirGhulkin GlacierHussainiZarabadP A K I S T A NGulmit GlacierGhulkinIRANINDIA90 displaced peopleHunza RiverNote: AAll r adisplacement b i a n S e a figures are as of May 2015Sources: N. Cook and D. Butz, November 2013;GulmitShishkat900 displacedpeopleAhmadabadM. Sökefeld, 2012; IDMC interview, May 2015900 displaced people190 displaced peopleSalmanabadSaratAttabadAinabadthe displacement of the remaining IDPs. 128The Pakistan Red Crescent Societyand Focus Humanitarian Assistance, anorganisation affiliated to the Aga KhanDevelopment Network, have also providedIDPs with assistance. 129 Focus distributedtwo months’ worth of aid from theWorld Food Programme, paid for with aUSAID grant. The Aga Khan Rural SupportProgramme set up a business revitalisationprogramme and a cash-for-workproject, and the government has providedschool subsidies. 130 Since 2014, two riverambulances have been transporting peopleto medical facilities downstream fromthe dam as part of a USAID programme. 131Overall, much less assistance was deliveredthan originally promised. Nor weredifferent programmes well coordinated,and government officials were accusedof corruption. 132 A series of protests wereorganised against the authorities’ perceivedinaction in draining the lake, anduntimely and inadequate assistance. InAugust 2011, police killed two protestingIDPs and injured another three, which triggeredfurther rallies and led to the arrestof a number of demonstrators on seditionand other charges. 133A Chinese state company is building anew section of road which, if it opens asplanned in August 2015, will complete theKarakoram highway again. This shouldhelp the valley’s inhabitants, includingthe remaining IDPs, to at least partiallyre-establish their former lives and livelihoodsby restoring their access to markets,services, education and employmentopportunities further south.They will also be able to work in thetransport sector and set up small roadsidebusinesses again, but opportunitiesto return to cultivating cash crops will belimited for a number of years to come. Thelake no longer covers much of the area’sarable land, but it has left it covered ina thick layer of sediment, making it verydifficult to farm. 13466 Global Estimates 2015