Dhaka, June 20 -- As far as I remember, the first time I heard the word 'refugee' was in the mid-1950s when a maternal great uncle - my mother's uncle - was visiting us in London from Addis Ababa. He had, by then, spent more than 40 years in different parts of Africa as a Church of England chaplain and had been connected with Ethiopia since 1928. He was talking with my mother, a geographer, about the problems of the Palestinian refugees and how, in his opinion, the Palestinians were being mistreated and that many western nations, principally the U.S.A. and the U.K., were not following the paths of truth and justice. It should be noted that my great uncle had been based in Addis Ababa in 1936 when the Italians invaded and took over, and he...