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8 May 2009
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The U.N. refugee agency announced recently that half a million people have fled the fighting between Pakistan Army and Taliban in Swat in the past few days bringing the total displaced in recent months to 1 million.
A spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said the fighting has led to massive displacement in the area. Ron Redmond said up to 200,000 people have arrived in safe areas in the past few days and that another 300,000 are on the move or are about to flee.
Redmond told reporters in Geneva on Friday that the numbers were in addition to 555,000 already counted by the United Nations since this August.
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