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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

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 Algeria's war of independence Click on the numbers or arrows to navigate ST Wright Algeria's war of independence Algeria's war of independence against France in the late 1950s led to Africa's first modern refugee crisis. These people are among some 200,000 refugees who fled to Tunisia and Morocco to escape imprisonment and torture at the hands of the French forces

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