United Nations Radio

The United Nation refugee agency (UNHCR) says that more than 2,000 people have registered as internally displaced people in the Georgian town of Gori.

UNHCR says 800 of these people are staying in a tented camp erected this week to accommodate people who have been displaced recently and those who are returning to Gori from other parts of Georgia.

UNHCR spokesperson Helen Caux says many of the recent arrivals reached Gori on Tuesday and Wednesday after being forcibly displaced by militias in the villages near the boundary with South Ossetia.

"Several of the displaced told UNHCR that they had fled fighting earlier this month and had just returned to their homes over the weekend. They talked about militias entering the villages, shooting in the air, harassing the inhabitants and looting their property."

The United Nations refugee agency says there were no new arrivals reported on Thursday.

For United Nations Radio, I'm Dianne Penn.

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