WORLD IN BRIEF : HONDURAS : Salvador Refugees to Be Repatriated
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
More than 8,000 Salvadoran refugees, many of whom have spent eight years in U.N. camps in Honduras, will begin returning home this month, a U.N. refugee spokesman said. “If all goes as planned, this will be the biggest repatriation of refugees in Central American history,” said Carlos Mondonado of the of Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. About 1,500 Salvadorans at a U.N.-run camp in Colomoncagua, two miles from the Salvadoran border, are due to go home Sunday, he said.
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