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Africa. Indeed, in recent years, a mounting level of migration

from Africa to industrial countries

countries of other continents has

been observed. It consists mainly of skilled manpower which

many of the home countries can ill afford to lose.

The very departure of these people may doom the home economies to loss of jobs which had depended upon the existence of those skills. This siphoning off of skills directly hindering the pace of

development in Africa requires constant attention, as does the parallel phenomenon in Asia.

69. Common to many countries of the world during the decade of

this Study has been a prolonged liberation struggle the re-

sponse to which has been the cause of mass exodus. Particu- larly in southern Africa, minority régimes abrogated powers to

advance their own interests at the expense of the majority, guarding their privileges with violent methods which have made many victims.

Apart from exercising repressive tactics within

the boundaries of the countries they rule, they have gone So

far to victimize a second time the innocent people who have

fled their régimes by carrying out military attacks upon

refugee camps, several of which have been those assisted by

UNHCR.

70. The various "push factors",

factors", analysed in the context of

violations of human rights and elaborated to a degree above,

should be viewed against the backdrop of other fundamental

problems which confront developing countries.

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