11.   It also trains Burmese refugees and providesscholarship for Burmese students in exile.

12.   It was not clear if the numbers included foreigners, such as the Burmese refugees.

13.   Local police entered a refugee camp in Bangladesh to restore order after it was taken over by militant Burmese refugees, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.

14.   One of the poorest countries in the world, Bangladesh has tried to send back the more than a quarter million Burmese refugees.

15.   One Thai man was killed in the attack at Huay Bong, and some reports said a Burmese refugee was also killed.

16.   Police opened fire and lobbed tear gas shells at a Burmese refugee camp Wednesday to subdue armed refugees who have resisted Bangladeshi efforts to send them back to Myanmar.

17.   Tens of thousands of Burmese refugees have fled into Thailand since the Burmese junta launched an offensive in December aimed at crushing the opposition to its brutal rule.

18.   Thai soldiers and Burmese guerrillas exchanged mortar fire along the tense border Monday, reportedly killing four guerrillas and injuring three Burmese refugees.

19.   The Amnesty report, based on interviews with dozens of Burmese refugees in Thailand, comes on the eighth anniversary of a popular uprising against Burmese military rule.

20.   The pipeline project has been a special target for criticism because of testimony by Burmese refugees that the military has used forced labor on support facilities for it.