DATE=9/14/1999
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=SIERRA LEONE / REFUGEES (L-ONLY)
NUMBER=2-253861
BYLINE=LISA SCHLEIN
DATELINE=GENEVA
CONTENT=
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INTRO: The U-N Refugee Agency says the Liberian
government has not granted permission to transfer
thousands of Sierra Leonian refugees to safer camp
sites. Lisa Schlein in Geneva reports the refugees
were forced out of their camps in Northern Liberia
last month by fighting between government and rebel
forces.
TEXT: The U-N refugee agency says it asked the
Liberian government a month ago for permission to move
13-thousand refugees to safer sites. But, it says it
has received no answer to its request.
About five-thousand refugees are gathered in the town
of Targbe and another eight-thousand are in Lofa
County.
U-N-H-C-R spokesman, Paul Stromberg, says thousands of
other refugees fled into the forest or moved to the
Liberian capital, Monrovia, to escape fighting that
broke out in August. He says the U-N agency has been
able to move 350 particularly vulnerable people to
another camp.
He says the agency wants to move the other 13-thousand
refugees from Lofa County to two sites closer to
Monrovia.
/// STROMBERG ACT ///
More safe, much easier to get to in bad weather
or should the violence continue, certainly if
there is further insecurity in the north. And,
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