Croatian officials have given figures of 2,000 killed, 800 missing, 3,000 taken prisoner and 42,852 made refugees in eastern Slavonia as a whole.

Another 23,000 were wounded and 400,000 were made refugees.

His own immediate family members were made refugees in Ghana by the most recent fighting.

The Biharis were made refugees without a state; as of 2011 over 250,000 still live in refuge camps.

The 20-year-old civil war has caused thousands of deaths and made refugees of millions more.

"I've heard of nothing in the west to make refugees," he said in a questioning tone.

They've been made refugees in their own country.

Some 50, 000 people had been killed in the revolutionary struggle and 150, 000 were made refugees.

The conflict in Darfur has made refugees of over a million men, women and children.

But their war is making victims and refugees of the very people the combatants say they are defending.