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Major
Mykola Mel'nychenko
, who started the
Cassette Scandal
by accusing
Ukrainian President
Leonid Kuchma
of ordering a journalist's
assassination
, continues to release disputed
audio excerpts
from
political asylum
in the
USA
?
Zeituni Onyango
is the half-aunt of
President-elect
Barack Obama
and a
political asylum
claimant from
Kenya
whose case was disclosed in the final days of the
2008 U.S. presidential election
?
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Refugee
Iraqi
refugee
Wafaa Bilal
was shot by more than 60,000
paintballs
in a month-long
performance art
piece in
Chicago
?
Cornelia Adair
, during
World War I
, invited
Belgian
refugees
to stay at her
Glenveagh Castle
in
County Donegal
,
Ireland
?
Johan Wollebæk
and
Jens Bull
led the
Norwegian Legation in Stockholm
during
World War II
, when there were more than 50,000 Norwegian
refugees
in
Sweden
?
Rusumo Falls
was a significant site during the
1994
Rwandan genocide
as thousands of dead bodies flowed underneath the bridge while a simultaneous stream of
refugees
crossed over it, fleeing into
Tanzania
to escape the fighting?
Sulejman Talović
, who went on a
shooting rampage
at a
shopping mall
in
Salt Lake City, Utah
, was a
refugee
from
Bosnia and Herzegovina
?
Against All Odds
is a
video game
developed by the
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
designed to teach players about the plight of
refugees
?
after having covered the
Spanish Civil War
as a
war correspondent
journalist
Lise Lindbæk
worked to aid Spanish
refugee
children in France?
in 1697
French
Huguenot
refugee
Élie Bouhéreau
brought church records from
La Rochelle
to
Ireland
to save them from destruction, and they remained there for nearly 200 years?
more than 700 of the
caricatures
on display at
Sardi's
restaurant
in
New York City
were drawn by a
Russian
refugee
in exchange for meals at the restaurant?
the
1994
Rwandan genocide
led to a
Great Lakes refugee crisis
, which ended when nearly two million
refugees
returned to
Rwanda
at the start of the
First Congo War
?
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