By 1948, as the great migration drew to a close, more than fifteen million people had been uprooted, and between one and two million were dead.
Thirty million were uprooted and dispersed by Stalin and Hitler between 1939 and 1943, a process that was repeated after the defeat of the Axis armies.
The court ordered him to face charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity after a campaign of killing, torture and rape against civilians in the Darfur region, where about 300,000 people died and more than two million were uprooted in years of fighting between the government and rebels.
Winds destroyed bamboo huts, uprooted trees, and disrupted road transport between towns and villages on the shore of the Bay of Bengal.
The charges relate to the conflict in the western Darfur region of Sudan, where an estimated 300,000 people have died and more than two million have been uprooted by almost a decade of fighting between the government and rebels.
Many have made long journeys from remote districts in the south of the country, where fighting between insurgents and government forces has uprooted thousands of families.
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Perhaps 90% of them never return home.Over the past decade, the conflict between the government, leftist guerrillas and the paramilitaries has uprooted some 2.5m Colombians a number of "displaced people" surpassed only in Sudan.
"We saw people pushed from their homes and farms, grandmothers, children and families uprooted," said Mr. Annan, who is in Kenya trying to broker negotiations between Mr. Kibaki and Mr. Odinga.
Against the backdrop of 15 years of bloody civil war between the Turkish Army and the separatist Kurds, they were uprooted from their rural villages and brought to a city where even new buildings look tired and tattered.
