11.   Human rights groups maintain the war in southern Sudan has forced thousands into slavery.

12.   It drew thousands into streets in Paris, Marseille, Bordeaux and elsewhere.

13.   The police estimate was expected to rise as packed subway trains ferried thousands into downtown Brussels.

14.   The storm still pounded the Mexican coast Tuesday, driving seawater through the streets of Ciudad del Carmen that flooded homes and forced thousands into emergency shelters.

15.   The storm turned trees into missiles, flipped small airplanes, whisked away satellite dishes and forced tens of thousands into shelters.

16.   Then a hurricane, Roxanne toppled trees, forced tens of thousands into shelters, flooded towns and destroyed crops.

17.   Wartime ethnic cleansing turned the once multiethnic country into areas largely inhabited by either Muslims, Croats or Serbs and hundreds of thousands into refugees.

18.   Yugoslav Serb forces have killed hundreds of people and turned tens of thousands into refugees in Kosovo in their offensive against ethnic Albanian rebels.

19.   International agencies have been critical of the role played by the official Serb media which has panicked thousands into leaving their homes, often without many of their possessions.

20.   And they led the thousands back into Hebron, reaching the outside of the Tomb complex, which is holy to Jews and Moslems, correspondents said.