- Asia
Exodus of the Lhotshampa
Amid 'one nation, one people' measures and stricter citizenship rules, tens of thousands of southern Bhutanese of Nepali origin leave or are expelled, and more than 100,000 end up in UNHCR camps in eastern Nepal.
Era: Democracy and the Modern Kingdom
Sources: Resettlement of Bhutanese refugees surpasses 100,000 mark · UNHCR — UN Refugee Agency, Nepal and Bhutan: Country Studies · Federal Research Division, Library of Congress
- Africa
Rwandan refugee crisis in the Kivus
The Rwandan genocide drives over a million refugees into eastern Zaire, destabilising the Kivu provinces.
Era: Mobutu's Zaire
Sources: Second Congo War · Wikipedia, Mobutu Sese Seko, president of Zaire · Encyclopædia Britannica
- Africa
Refugee crisis and the Congo wars
Over a million Hutu flee to camps in Zaire and beyond; the presence of armed génocidaires there draws Rwanda into the Congo wars from 1996, which kill millions across the region.
Era: Aftermath, Justice and Reconstruction
Sources: Outreach Programme on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda — Historical Background · United Nations, History of Rwanda · Wikipedia
Peoples & Migration in the 1990s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged peoples and migration — settlement, movement and displacement, narrowed to the 1990s — 3 of them, drawn from 3 nations, running from 1991 to 1994. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 3
- Nations
- 3
- Earliest
- 1991
- Latest
- 1994
- Africa
- 2
- Asia
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.