IRIN Films is pleased to announce the launch of "Forced to Flee" - a powerful new series of short films on internal displacement.

Around the world tens of millions of people have been forced to leave their homes. Some have been driven out by conflict, some by natural disaster. Some have been displaced in the name of development, others by climate change.

Meet Kamarik and his wife Dharma who, in 2001, were chased out of their mountain village by Maoist rebels. For the past eight years they and their six children have lived "worse than dogs" in the Nepali capital Kathmandu.

Hear the moving story of fifty-year-old Sum Rin, displaced from a shanty in the centre of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh to make way for a new commercial development.

Or ex-child soldier Emmanuel who witnessed his own parents murder, and who as a consequence, can never go back to his childhood village.

 

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