A staggering total of 120 million people are living forcibly displaced by war, violence and persecution, the UN's refugee chief says, branding the ever-increasing number a "terrible indictment on the state of the world". "This inability of making peace which is the characteristic of our era, is really having a heavy toll on millions of people, every year more millions," he says. The number is up from 110 million a year ago, and has been rising for 12 consecutive years -- nearly tripling since 2012 amid a combination of new and mutating crises and a failure to resolve long-standing ones, according to the United Nations' refugee agency UNHCR. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES