11.   Their main purpose appears to be to intimidate the refugees and prevent them from returning to their homes.

12.   The violence apparently provided an opportunity for Sudanese rebels to cross into Congo and begin intimidating refugees, the U.N. refugee agency said.

13.   An aid official who worked among Rwandan refugees in Tanzania has accused local soldiers of beating and intimidating refugees during a forced repatriation last year.

14.   Both Zaire and Rwanda insist they should receive aid on Rwandan soil, but it is uncertain that the militias intimidating the refugees will allow them to cross back.

15.   Chuan blamed the incursions on Karen forces trying to intimidate the refugees into returning to Burma.

16.   Extremist Hutu militias based abroad have continued attacks inside Rwanda, and intimidated Hutu refugees who want to return home.

17.   The troops have reportedly intimidated the refugees, who numbered more than one million in Zaire at the height of the inter-ethnic conflict in Rwanda.

18.   Relief agencies had accused them of intimidating refugees and preventing them from returning home for fear of reprisals.

19.   Relief agencies had accused them of intimidating the refugees and preventing them from returning home for fear of reprisals.