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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 Turmoil in Central America Click on the numbers or arrows to navigate UNHCR/Vanappelghem Turmoil in Central America One of almost 50,000 Guatemalan refugees who fled to Mexico following the slaughter of thousands of indigenous people. More than 2 million people were displaced from Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador during three separate civil wars in the 1980s.

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