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Nepal's Conflicts
Basic Information
Civil War & Peace Process in Nepal
Displaced people
Displaced people
INFORMAL SECTOR SERVICE CENTRE (INSEC)
Human Rights Data
INSEC
Estimatd number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Nepal 2006
August 2006
Number of
IDPs
2006
The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), the leading international body on IDP issues, said the decade-long armed conflict between the Maoists and government had displaced between 100,000 and 200,000 Nepalese people.
April 2005
FACTS
According to the UN news service IRIN, the representative of the UN Secretary-General on Human Rights, Walter Kälin, found that there was a widespread pattern of conflict-induced displacement in the Asian nation, with the main causes being acts of violence or threats against the population, practices of forced recruitment and extortion by the Maoist armed group, fear of reprisals by the Royal Nepal Army for allegedly providing food or shelter to Maoists (even when this was provided under duress) and a generalised climate of insecurity.

Nepal and India share a largely unregulated 1,750-km open border and Kälin said India could be holding more displaced Nepalese than those that were in the Himilayan kingdom itself.

Such a reality points to another problem. Nepal, a nation of some 27 million, does not have proper camps for the displaced. There are about 100 families at Rajena, a camp near Nepalgunj in the Midwestern region of the country.

"We've heard reports that younger Nepalese were moving due to forced conscription. In some areas, up to 80 percent of the host population has left over the years," Walter Kälin, representative of the UN Secretary-General on Human Rights said.

Estimatd number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Nepal 2005
Government sources
statistics per May 2005
Internally Displaced people
(estimated)
up to 37,000 people
Fled or migrated to India
n.a.
Non-Government (NGO) sources
statistics per April 2005
Internally Displaced people (estimated)
up to 200,000 people
Fled or migrated to India
(estimated)
up to 2 million people
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