Going nowhere Fast. Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Going nowhere Fast. Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Author(s): Author Not Specified
Subject(s): Security and defense, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: ICG International Crisis Group
Keywords: refugees; displaced persons;
Summary/Abstract: Apart from stopping the fighting, silencing the guns and separating forces, the single clearest promise of the Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA) was that Bosnian refugees and internally displaced persons would be able to return home. However, the number of returnees has to date fallen far short of expectations. More than sixteen months after the DPA came into force, only about 250,000 refugees and internally displaced persons have actually made it home, almost exclusively to areas in which they form part of the majority group. And even that figure portrays an artificially rosy picture, since a further 80,000 people have been displaced in the same period, largely during the transfer of territory between the two Entities.
Series: ICG Balkans Report
- Page Count: 70
- Publication Year: 1997
- Language: English
- Content File-PDF
- Introduction