Tens of thousands of people in Nepal have been displaced by a Maoist insurgency wracking the Himalayan nation, a UN expert who just returned from the country said Friday.
"There's no systematic assistance or protection given to these displaced populations either by authorities in Nepal or by international organizations," said Dennis McNamara, special advisor on internal displacement to the UN emergency relief coordinator.
"Any assistance they get is ad hoc and it's quite inadequate," he said, citing an estimate of between 100,000 and 200,000 people displaced.
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