| Subject: Latest refugee return figures
Here are the most recent monthly figures, provided by UNHCR. Note that the rate of "spontaneous" returns has dropped off sharply. At current rates, it will be seven years before all the estimated 70,000 remaining East Timorese refugees in West Timor are home. Charlie Scheiner Monthly Breakdown organised spontaneous total Oct-99 23,069 14,563 37,632 Nov 42,127 26,576 68,703 Dec 17,331 2,300 19,631 sub-total 82,527 43,439 125,966 Jan-00 7,520 267 7,787 Feb 13,374 2,044 15,418 Mar 9,465 20 9,485 Apr 3,124 0 3,124 May 1,702 2 1,704 Jun 2,920 165 3,085 Jul 2,782 67 2,849 Aug 184 8 192 Sep 329 287 616 Oct 261 736 997 Nov 1,573 495 2,068 Dec 1,071 143 1,214 sub-total 44,305 4,234 48,539 Jan-01 458 86 544 Feb 1,460 41 1,501 Mar 2,709 40 2,749 Apr 293 84 377 May 560 165 725 Jun 940 358 1,298 Jul 906 311 1,217 Aug 427 181 608 Sep 1,796 72 1,868 Oct 3,260 155 3,415 Nov 1,703 22 1,725 Dec 2,094 31 2,125 sub-total 16,606 1,546 18,152 Jan-02 687 44 731 Feb-02 903 8 911 sub-total 1,590 52 1,642 Totals: 145,028 49,271 194,299 ... Charles Scheiner La'o Hamutuk P.O. Box 340, Dili, East Timor (via Darwin, Australia) Telephone:+61-417-923273 or +670-390-325013 Personal: cscheiner@igc.org La'o Hamutuk: laohamutuk@easttimor.minihub.org http://www.etan.org/lh Back to March menu Note: For those who would like to fax "the powers that be" - CallCenter is a Native 32-bit Voice Telephony software application integrated with fax and data communications... and it's free of charge! Download from http://www.v3inc.com/ |