31.   The offensive was preceded by raids on refugee camps in Thailand housing thousands of Karens who had fled from Burma.

32.   The town houses thousands of civilians who fled there from the capital during the fighting.

33.   U.N. workers were warned to stay off the streets and frightened civilians sought shelter Thursday as fighting raged near Buchanan, a city housing thousands of displaced people.

34.   U.N. workers were warned to stay off the streets and frightened civilians sought shelter Thursday as fighting raged near Buchanan, a city housing thousands of refugees.

35.   Upon reaching Tuzla, many of the Bosnian men raced to tents on a U.N. airfield where thousands of refugees are housed, frantically searching for their families.

36.   The bombing reportedly was aimed at camps housing thousands of civilians from Tajikistan inside Afghanistan.

37.   The camps, which also house thousands of members of the Hutu civilian militias responsible for many of the massacres of Tutsis earlier this year, are already tense.

38.   The camps, which also house thousands of members of the mainly-Hutu militias responsible for the massacre of Tutsi civilians earlier this year, are already tense.