11. For decades, Thailand sheltered refugees from the fighting in neighboring Burma. 12. Following talks with regional leaders and U.N. officials, the government has now restated its willingness to shelter refugees and taken steps to reduce tensions between locals and foreigners. 13. Karayalcin added that Turkey was prepared to shelter Chechen refugees. 14. Most of the fatalities came when Israeli artillery shells hit a U.N. base sheltering refugees. 15. Supplying the Russian army, sheltering refugees and rebuilding the battered, bombed-out region could cost billions of dollars Russia can ill afford. 16. Thailand has long sheltered refugees from Myanmar. 17. The rest is for Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro to cover their costs of sheltering refugees, including social costs, electricity, sanitation and transportation. 18. There is no immediate danger of UNHCR being unable to shelter refugees in Macedonia, Janowski said. 19. There were more than a dozen major attacks last year on camps in Thailand sheltering Burmese refugees, most of them from the Karen ethnic minority. 20. There have been about a dozen major attacks on camps in Thailand sheltering Burmese refugees, most of them from the Karen ethnic minority. |