Forgotten Tragedies

The international relief group Medecins sans Frontieres has submitted a report to the U.N. citing 10 areas around the world in which entire populations are at "immediate risk" from famine, war, disease or displacement.

-- AZERBAIJANIS AND ARMENIANS

Battling for Nagorno-Karabakh

-- MUSLIMS

Besieged by Serb and Croat forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina

-- KURDS

In northern Iraq, about 180,000 have been killed by Saddam Hussein's regime

-- MOZAMBICANS

More than 4 million rely on international food aid

-- PERUVIANS

Caught between Shining Path and a government campaign to suppress it

-- ROHINGYAS

A Muslim group in Burma persecuted by the military government

-- SOMALIS

Threatened with starvation by drought and clan warfare

-- SRI LANKANS

Endangered by the government's campaign to suppress a Tamil uprising

-- SOUTH SUDANESE

Victims of the government's policy of withholding food to starve out a rebellion

-- TUAREGS

More than a million wander the Sahara as refugees