CNN, February 14, 1999
Ten years after the last Soviet soldier pulled out of Afghanistan, 2.6 million Afghans still live in exile, from the camps of Iran and Pakistan to the suburbs of Frankfurt, Paris and London.
Twenty years after the Soviet invasion provoked an avalanche of refugees, Afghans remain the single largest refugee group in the world, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees said in a statement marking the 10th anniversary of the Soviet pullout.
By the end of 1979 -- the year the Soviet army entered Afghanistan in support of the communist regime which had seized power the previous year -- there were already 400,000 refugees in Pakistan and 200,000 in Iran.
By 15 February 1989, the number had risen to a staggering 6.2 million, split almost equally between the two neighboring countries, "which showed extraordinary generosity in hosting such a vast number of refugees on their territory," the U.N. said. '
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