Meanwhile, aid workers, so far restricted in their movements inside Darfur, are scrambling to ferry food, tarpaulins and other relief supplies to displaced peasants camped out across the vast, largely arid territory.

The Arab National Fund, created in 1931 by wealthy Arab families to purchase land for displaced peasants, was ineffective.

Tax remissions and crop seed loans encouraged displaced peasants to return to their land.

An edict in 94 AD excused displaced peasants from paying land and labor service taxes for a year upon returning to their own farms.

The US government offered $175,000 as compensation to displaced peasants after recommending the program's cancellation.

Powerful aristocratic landowners offered shelter to displaced peasants, using their increased authority to reclaim privileges abolished during the Qin and Han.

In the meantime, they have urged the residents of Juba, most of them displaced peasants, to move to the countryside, where there is no food, so the rebels can have a free hand to bomb the town.

One government study found that 62% of displaced peasants were worse off after land conversion.

If only his own father had been something more than a displaced peasant, a shopowner, perhaps, someone able to save a little money . . . On his next circuit, he saw the - paint can?

The work force consisted of Bashkiri sheepherders and displaced peasants, wide-eyed pioneers from the Young Communist League, petty criminals and a large number of foreign mercenaries and idealists.