SARAJEVO, Jan 13 (Hina) - Nearly a million refugees and displaced persons have returned to their prewar homes in Bosnia-Herzegovina to date, UNHCR spokesman Bakir Jalovcic said at a news conference in Sarajevo on Tuesday.
SARAJEVO, Jan 13 (Hina) - Nearly a million refugees and displaced
persons have returned to their prewar homes in Bosnia-Herzegovina to
date, UNHCR spokesman Bakir Jalovcic said at a news conference in
Sarajevo on Tuesday.#L#
Since the signing of the Dayton peace agreement that ended the war in
the country in 1995, 982,120 refugees and displaced persons have
returned; 717,166 have returned to their homes in the Muslim-Croat
federation and 243,845 to Republika Srpska. A little over 21,000
refugees have returned to the District of Brcko, a separate
administrative unit in the northeast of the country.
The UNHCR finds particularly important the fact that 432,345 people
have returned to areas where their ethnic group is in a minority. In
the first 11 months of 2003, 43,000 out of 51,000 returnees were
members of minority communities.
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