The author describes the status of refugees displaced by the war in Yugoslavia. It is concluded that "the flight and displacements of population are not only the consequence of the war but also one of its aims: [to] produce ethnically 'pure' territories." Data mainly concern the period from late 1991 to the present. (SUMMARY IN ENG AND GER) excerpt

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