| | UNHCR - Senegal: Information regarding the persecution of Diola minority in Senegal and specifically whether the army ... |
 | | According to an article published by the Fourth World Center for the Study of Indigenous Law and Politics, Diola inhabit the Casamance region of Senegal and represent 60 per cent of the 800,000 inhabitants of Casamance (12 Mar. 1994). |
| | A 5 May 1993 Reuters report, states that animists and Christians from the Diola ethnic group compose the Mouvement des Forces Démocratiques de la Casamance (MFDC), a separatist group formed in 1947 and that has been at war with the government since the 1980s (Afrique Contemporaine oct.-déc. |
| | A14 August 1992 Inter Press Service (IPS) report states that Diola guerrillas of the MFDC beat and drove refugees, mainly of the Mandika ethnicity, from their homes. |
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