81.   Thirsty, hungry and exhausted, the refugees fled their camps in the Uvira region in eastern Zaire where Zairean troops are battling rebel Tutsis known as Banyamulenge.

82.   UNHCR officials said Wednesday tens of thousands of refugees had fled a camp at Kasese south of rebel-held Kisangani following fighting.

83.   Kessler said the UNHCR was unable to assist those who fled the camps because of a lack of security.

84.   Last November an offensive launched by Zairean Tutsi rebels in eastern Zaire against the Kinshasa government caused hundreds of thousands of fearful refugees to flee the camps.

85.   Many people fled the camp during the night.

86.   Most of them have fled their camps to escape the fighting, and many Zairean villagers have fled their homes.

87.   Most refugees have fled their camps amid the fighting pitting the Tutsi rebels against the Zairean army and Hutu extremists hiding among the refugees.

88.   More than a million refugees have fled camps all over eastern Zaire to avoid the fighting between government troops and mainly Tutsi insurgents.

89.   More than a million refugees are living in appalling conditions, having fled camps all over eastern Zaire to avoid the fighting between government troops and mainly Tutsi insurgents.

90.   More than half a million refugees fled the camps in eastern Zaire last month, though several hundreds of thousands of others remain unaccounted before.