“To say you are interested in refugee returns at a time when we see house-burnings is simply not a meaningful statement.”
Chris Hill
“The Yugoslav delegation presented a proposal that would not guarantee the safe return of all the (ethnic Albanian) refugees (and) the full withdrawal of Yugoslav forces,”
Michael Jackson
“They seem now to have started rounding up refugees queuing to leave Kosovo and returning them by force.”
Clare Short
“Military personnel were telling us at the time -- they're trained to fight -- they're not trained to run a refugee camp.”
Cheryl Little
“The 21 Arab states that could easily have absorbed the original 650,000 Palestinian refugees in 1948 refused to do so, even though their combined land mass was 700 times greater than that possessed by Israel. By contrast, the Jewish population of the new state was only 600,000, yet Israel willingly absorbed some 820,000 Jewish refugees from Europe.”
Randall Price
“once a refugee, always a refugee.”
Elie Wiesel
“It is racist to call American citizens refugees.”
Jesse Jackson
