India’s Refugee Stats:
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India is home to 209,000 refugees
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Tbetans (110,000) and Sri Lankans (64,000) make up 3/4 of the refugee population in India
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Refugees from Myanmar, Afghanistan and Somalia make up the rest of the refugee population
Sri Lanka’s Refugee Stats:
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Following 3-decades of civil war, at present, 44,934 are presently internally displaced in Sri Lanka
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Most of the internally displaced belong to the ethnic Tamil minority
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64,000 refugees of Sri Lankan origin are seeking asylum in India