Internally displaced persons

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Internally displaced persons (IDPs) are people forced to flee their homes but who, unlike refugees, remain within their country's borders. At the end of 2006 estimates of the world IDP population rose to 24.5 million in some 52 countries. The region with the largest IDP population is Africa with some 11.8 million in 21 countries

Countries with significant IDP populations

• Azerbaijan due to the occupation of Nagorno-Karabagh, Ağdam and surrounding territories by Armenian forces since the early 1990's.
• Burundi due to fighting between government and Hutu rebel groups.
• Burma (Myanmar) due to decades of a long civil war and government repression of ethnic minorities
• Chad due to close by Darfur and civil war in eastern Chad.
• Colombia due to the war between the government, FARC, the AUC and other armed groups
• Cyprus due to the intercommunal troubles of 1964 and the 1974 Turkish invasion and aftermath.
• The Democratic Republic of Congo due to the Second Congo War.
• Ethiopia due to poverty, natural disasters and conflict in the Somali Region
• Georgia due to the ethnic Georgian population who fled Abkhazia following the civil war of 1991-93.
• Iraq due to forced displacement during Saddam Hussein's regime, and fighting between the Multi-National Force and Iraqi insurgent groups.
• Indian-occupied Kashmir due to insurgency
• India - 50 million people were internally displaced since 1950 due to haphazard industrial projects.[1]
• Israel-150,000-420,000 Internally Displaced Palestinians and Bedouins, most of whom are Arab citizens of Israel
• Serbia due to various conflicts across the Former Yugoslavia
• Somalia due to the Somali Civil War.
• Sudan due to civil conflicts in the South and Darfur in the west
• Uganda due to the insurgency of the Lord's Resistance Army
• West Bank and Gaza due to house demolitions and land confiscation by the government of Israel.
• United States from disasters, including hurricanes and wildfires