displaced person
Example Sentences
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For the residents of the El Miskin camp for internally displaced persons, on the outskirts of town, there is no "business, no farmland, no proper living conditions, no schools", said camp chairman Hashim El Miskin.
From Barron's
For the residents of the El Miskin camp for internally displaced persons, on the outskirts of town, there is no "business,... no farmland, no proper living conditions, no schools", said camp chairman Hashim El Miskin.
From Barron's
“I’m talking to you now as a displaced person, along with what’s left of my clan, all of us spread out in different parts of Gaza,” Dughmush said.
From Los Angeles Times
It also talked about the "facilitation of the return of refugees and internally displaced persons".
From BBC
Truman was deeply moved by the plight of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust stranded in displaced persons camps in Europe.
From BBC
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