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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: Simon Ingram reports on return to East Timor, October 1999

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 Return to East Timor Click on the numbers or arrows to navigate UNHCR/Pagetti Return to East Timor Hundreds of thousands of East Timorese returned home in 1999 after fleeing militias opposed to independence earlier in the year. For those who fled to West Timor, the repatriation was tricky. Anti-independence militia groups controlled the camps, terrorizing those who wished to leave.

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