Violence quickly spread across the state, displacing thousands of people.

In conflict situations, preventing displacement primarily requires political will.

So, we all know about the Narmada river, the tragedies of dams, the tragedies of huge projects which displace people and wreck river systems without providing livelihoods.

The conflict has displaced more than 75,000 people.

Thousands of people were displaced and we heard brutal tales of rape and murder.

We must prevent displacement from occurring, and end it as quickly as possible.

Kankossatoday blog also talked about the displacement of 30 families in one of the villages

During 2003, approximately 207,607 people were forcibly displaced.

The tsunamis confronted the international community, including the United Nations and civil society in the humanitarian field, with a disaster of unprecedented proportions and inflicted within a very short period of time, which in addition to the immense loss of life caused displacement of people on an enormous scale.

Mindful of the human suffering caused by the displacement of thousands of people due to the loss of homes,

The Committee requests the State party not to forcibly displace populations and to re examine its policy in this regard.

In some areas, temporary displacement of the population resulted from the brutal and arbitrary nature of these arrests.

Almost l million Ugandans have been displaced and forced to live in camps for internally displaced persons.

Israel had occupied about 1,000 square kilometres of the Golan since 1967, expelling about half a million inhabitants and establishing 44 settlements inhabited by about 20,000 settlers.

The clashes have also resulted in the displacement of some 3,000 new refugees across the border to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

These acts of violence gave rise to migrations of displaced persons and persons fleeing to Benin and Ghana.

Mindful of the human suffering caused by the displacement of thousands of people and the disrupted delivery of health and social services,

Those crimes include the killing of thousands of civilians and the widespread destruction and looting of villages, leading to the displacement of approximately 1.9 million civilians.

Confrontations between FDN and FNL and search operations by FDN led to the displacement of some 400 families from Isale commune, Bujumbura rural, on 24 August, and the displacement of some 700 families from Musigati commune, Bubanza Province, on 29 August.

A severe drought in 1998 caused the displacement of approximately 100,000 nomadic people from the Registan desert region.

Repeated attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda also led to the displacement of refugees and Ugandans and generated security concerns.

In the worst cases, the land and resources of minorities are taken over by the more powerful sectors of society, with consequent displacement and marginalization of persons belonging to the minorities.

The country is emerging from 10 years of war, which has caused the displacement of a fifth of the population and has gravely damaged physical and economic infrastructures.

September's fresh violence directed against the civilian population caused tens of thousands of civilians to be displaced.

As a result of the ethnic conflict that broke out in the Ituri District in May 2003, many area residents were displaced and impoverished.

Yet, renewed fighting in the eastern Kivu provinces and in the north eastern Ituri district again resulted in the displacement of tens of thousands of people.

Noting with alarm that the resumption of fighting by the Taliban during the past summer led to further displacement of civilian populations, especially in the provinces of Baghlan and Takhar,

The 2006 and 2007 flooding in Johor has resulted in loss of RM1.5 billion and 18 lives in addition to the temporary displacement of 110,000 people.

Just think of the images of recent storms and floods in the Philippines and Vietnam that displaced and killed thousands, and multiply those horrors manifold.

Landslides resulting from recent heavy rain have left hundreds of families homeless in different parts of Mauritania. After destroying their homes, the landslides left hundreds of families in Kaedi (Southern Mauritania), Makta'a Lahjar and Aleg (Central Mauritania), and Nema (Eastern Mauritania), without roofs over their heads.

Soon afterwards, its most famous Chinese clone, Fanfou.com, also was closed down, leaving one million registered users homeless.

In Darfur, western Sudan, direct and systematic attacks on civilians, including murder and rape, provoked massive displacement from early 2003.

In relation to any policies or programmes that may lead to the removal of their children, or their removal, displacement or relocation from their traditional territories.

The displacement of people, which initially occurred in December 2004 and January 2005, has happened again during July and August 2005.

It has displaced millions of citizens, separating them from their families, places of work, homes and lands.

A more coordinated response to protection and assistance for internally displaced persons could help stabilize volatile political situations and prevent further population displacement, including cross border movement.

Israel s unilateral policy of demolishing homes in Palestine has resulted in scores of Palestinians being deported or made homeless in Jerusalem, Hebron, the Jordan Valley, and elsewhere.

Ms. Hampson reiterated that the study was not about the environment, nor about adverse environmental impacts on indigenous land or displacement of indigenous people on account of development projects.

Internal displacement is often protracted in 2004, the average length of displacement was 14 years, with the overwhelming majority of internally displaced persons being displaced for more than a year.

According to UNRWA, Israel's military campaign of house demolitions between September 2000 and 30 April 2003 rendered 12,737 Palestinians homeless.

Though population transfers, even as part of a peace settlement, would not be easily accepted under modern human rights law, the wreckage of post war Europe brought a different conclusion.

The setting of many incidents of abuse since the beginning of the conflict, the west of the country is going through a situation of great insecurity, with grave consequences such as the displacement of the civilian population.

Several measures had already been taken to build up capacities so that by 2007 UNHCR would be able to assume a quick and effective response to unexpected refugee crises involving the displacement of up to 500,000 people.

However, the fighting between the Government forces and the FNL rebels in early June in the Provinces of Bujumbura Rural and Bubanza has led to the displacement of an estimated 23,000 people.

(b) The attacks by military forces on villages in Karen State and other ethnic States in Myanmar, leading to extensive forced displacements and serious violations of the human rights of the affected populations