Burundi Refugees
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Burundi Refugees Refugees are people who have been forced to leave their home country for fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, politics, civil war or due to environmental disasters. They move to other countries hoping to find help and asylum. Refugees do not include displaced persons who are people who have been forced to move within their own country. Over 80% of refugees are in developing countries due to the country being less able to help. They live in extreme poverty, lacking food, shelter, clothing, education and medical care. They have no citizenship, few, if any rights and virtually no prospects. The largest recorded movement in recent history followed tribal-based genocide in Rwanda, Africa. Over 1 million refugees had escaped to neighbouring countries. Here's an example of refugees in Burundi: Burundi's war began in late 1993, triggered by the assassination, in October of that year, of the country's first...

