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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: Keith Graves reports on the Afghan war, January 1980

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 Afghan exile begins Click on the numbers or arrows to navigate UNHCR/Gloaguen Afghan exile begins Ghazi Refugee Village in Pakistan. The exodus of more than six million Afghans started in 1979 following the Soviet invasion. Most fled to Iran and Pakistan. More than 20 years later Afghans remain one of the biggest refugee groups in the world, second only to the Palestinians.

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