11.   Thailand has recently been a reluctant host to the Karen.

12.   The reluctant host country showed more signs of trying to resist the influx.

13.   The United Nations is a reluctant host and would like to send him into exile, but the nominal government of President Burhanuddin Rabbani has refused to grant permission.

14.   Leal also considered absurd a request for political asylum made by the former rebels to their reluctant hosts, claiming they would be persecuted if they left.