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In some countries, the internally displaced are beyond the reach of international humanitarian organizations.
Although the displaced populations concerned may be in dire need of assistance and protection, and could benefit
immeasurably from outside support, few or no steps are taken, or strategies developed, to gain access to them. Whereas
conflict is the inhibiting factor in some cases, in others, the governments concerned do not request aid and by and large reject
any that is offered. Only rarely does the United Nations Security Council deem such situations to be threats to international
peace and security and demand entry.
Leading examples of governments that successfully bar international involvement with their displaced populations are Turkey,
Burma, and Algeria. The situations in the three countries are, of course, quite different. In Turkey and Burma, governments
have deliberately uprooted people in order to destroy their possible links to insurgency movements. In Algeria, displacement is
a by-product of conflict, primarily between the government and Islamist insurgent groups...
