11.   The mission of the Red Cross, though, was to help the displaced within Rwanda, not to assist refugees.

12.   The slain U.N. workers were in West Timor to assist refugees who had fled militia-led violence in East Timor.

13.   The U.S. Information Agency has set up the Kosovar Refugee Internet Assistance Initiative to assist refugees in finding friends and relatives.

14.   They have spent the last two decades assisting Vietnamese refugees but have agreed now to step aside.

15.   U.N. refugee specialists say they are gearing up to assist refugees interested in leaving tent cities in Albania, Macedonia and elsewhere and return home.

16.   Organizations assisting refugees maintain that asylum seekers arriving on Eurostar have a right to a hearing, just as do those arriving by plane or boat.

17.   A field hospital being sent to Albania to assist refugees from the Yugoslav province of Kosovo will leave the Czech Republic on Monday, the news agency CTK reported.

18.   A future Palestinian state would take in others, and a massive international aid package would assist other refugees in their current places of residence.

19.   A UNHCR spokesman said the organisation is prepared to help Thailand ease the burden of assisting refugees but has yet to receive a formal request.

20.   Aid workers who assisted the refugees were also accused of colluding with the rebels and harassed, according to relief organizations.