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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Three years after the end of a brutal civil war, Angola's government is failing to help the hundreds of thousands of refugees returning to a devastated homeland riddled with land mines, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.
In some parts of the country, authorities are harassing, extorting or sexually abusing returnees who do not have identity cards, the New York-based rights group said in a 39-page report.
"After the war, there was a tremendous flood of people on the move," Peter Takirambudde, executive director of the group's Africa division, said in a statement. "But even though Angolans are settling down again now, their problems are far from solved."
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