Internally Displaced Persons – 1999

From January to November of 1999, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees had assisted in the repatriation of 4,119 Tajik refugees. UNHCR did not report on the number of IDPs in Tajikistan.2

Internally Displaced Persons – 1997

The UNHCR reported an estimated 520,000 IDPs in Tajikistan in 1993. This number was reported as having shrunk to 25,285 by 1996.4 The Protocol on Refugees had established a timeline of 12 to 18 months for the return of IDPs and refugees and called for the reactivation of the Joint Commission on Refugees.5