As with the partition of India when 10 million were displaced, arbitrarily drawn boundaries between "tribes" in Africa resulted in massive displacement and bloodshed.
Massive displacement of the indigenous population was reported in early 2000; returning refugees and displaced persons from Khartoum, Kenya, and Ethiopia occurred later in 2005.
Here, though, massive displacement is taking place.
"Any massive displacement would lead to regional war," said Jo.
But it will also mean a massive displacement of jobs in the transportation industry.
The fighting was the latest setback in a country that has been plagued by civil war, drought, spiraling inflation and massive displacement — often at the same time.
It omits, too, the climatic effects of human-induced land use changes, in particular deforestation and massive displacement of people through agribusiness.
"We, as Lebanon, cannot close the border with Syria, with our understanding of the political, security and economic risks for this massive displacement," he said.
Freudians would call it massive displacement: a procrastinating novelist with a book due exiles himself to a writing jail in a seaside cabin.
Among the remaining population there was massive displacement characterized by a general movement of people from the conflict zones in the north and east to the central cities.
Mr. Deng also said there had been "barbaric attacks" on civilians in Abyei that resulted in "massive displacement of thousands of people".
