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n. - The transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new community (as after an upheaval of some kind).

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  • Watson says as the legal fight goes on, “many Bushmen are languishing in resettlement camps.”
  • Volcan is proposing a shorter-term resettlement plan that would involve the construction of housing and public institutions in an area not far from the mine, he said.
  • Many are condemned to a slow and painful death in the so-called resettlement camps.
  • Colonel William Hickman, calls the resettlement effort his number-one priority, ahead even of preparations for the upcoming provincial elections.
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