Sentence examples for were made refugees from inspiring English sources

Three were flattened in Lebanon's civil war from 1975-90; theiresidentsts, descended from Palestinians who had fled the advancing Israelis in 1948, were made refugees twice over.

"Israel is full of people, Jewish people, who lived in predominantly Arab countries who came to Israel because they were made refugees in their own land".

"There is some interest, interestingly enough on both sides, in also having a fund which compensates the Israelis who were made refugees by the war which occurred after the birth of Israel," he said.

As bad was the American war in Laos (1962-75), in which 10% of the population perished and 25% were made refugees.

Over the next four years, nearly 45percentt of Bosnia's 4.5 million residents were made refugees as Serbian forces besieged cities, obliterated neighborhoods and wiped out entire towns.

As the son of Holocaust survivors, who was born in a DP camp in Italy, and grew up in Jaffa in the evacuated home of Palestinians who were made refugees by Israel's army and never allowed to return, I am acutely sensitized to the meaning of refugee life and its injustices.

Many more than that have been made refugees.

At least 30,000 have died, and millions have been made refugees.

In two years of civil war, over 90,000 people have died, while 1.7m have been made refugees.

They have been made refugees many times - first in 1948, and again since the destruction of the Palestinian camps in Syria.

In the last month alone, thousands of civilians have been killed in heavy fighting between rebel and government forces vying for control of an area north of Goma, and the UN reckons that another 50,000 have been made refugees.