21.   Bob Drogin, The Los Angeles Times, Johannesburg bureau chief, humanitarian agencies and international relief groups in the post-Cold-War era.

22.   Bosnian law prohibits moving refugees into abandoned houses, but at the moment it is being ignored, international relief workers say.

23.   A Taliban-issued edict forbids Afghan nationals on staffs of international relief agencies to communicate with the outside world.

24.   About two million others, international relief agencies estimate, have been permanently disabled, either physically or mentally.

25.   But a number of diplomats, international relief officials and mining experts say there is persuasive evidence.

26.   But international relief workers are worried that this is not enough to care for the hundreds of thousands of people who will never be able to go home.

27.   But it made no mention of any international relief effort.

28.   But no international relief groups are helping refugees in Qal Bad, and local authorities cannot afford to make their homecoming any easier.

29.   But the international relief agencies are strongly opposed to moving the Muslim refugees into these houses.

30.   But the tentative plans for an international relief mission do not appear to include steps to prevent re-establishment of such camps.