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Home Persecution: - Overview: Changing world - A refugee's story - Slideshow: 50 years of refugees - Slideshow: Refugee portraits - Talking point: UNHCR chief Ruud Lubbers took your questions The Journey Life in a foreign land The way ahead World Service radio series From the archive: Tom Carver visits the scene of genocide, March 2000

Persecution: Slideshow: 50 years of refugees 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Fleeing Srebrenica Click on the numbers or arrows to navigate AP Fleeing Srebrenica The break-up of Yugoslavia in 1991 led to Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II . These people are among 40,000 who fled Srebrenica in 1995. They were the lucky ones: a further 7,000 people were slaughtered in the so-called "safe haven", while the UNHCR found itself powerless to act.

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