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Nearly 200,000 People Displaced By Conflict in Georgia
over the past week, several busloads of internally displaced persons arrived spontaneously every day at the tented camp in geori, claiming that they would rather stay there than be relocated in tblisi .
refugees from south ossetia sit in a refugee camp in the town of alagir, 14 aug 2008 they originate from south ossetia, 223,000; from inaccessible parts of the so-called buffer zone, 8,000; and from abkhazia, 1,000, he said .
however, unhcr spokesman, ron redmond, says the outlook does not look as good for the remaining 31,000 idps who probably will not been able to return home in the foreseeable future .
however, he says some of the displaced refused to be relocated and are leaving for gori .
the unhcr reports 30,000 people from south ossetia fled the fighting between georgia and russia .
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