1.   The ferry was packed with refugees fleeing sectarian violence in the Moluccas.

2.   In the ensuing riot, a hut containing refugees seeking to flee the violence, mainly northerners, was set on fire.

3.   As the repression worsened, some villagers took up arms and joined the guerrillas, but most members of the community fled the violence.

4.   At the border, they told Canadian authorities they were fleeing the violence in El Salvador and wanted to apply for refugee asylum.

5.   But for farmers fleeing the violence in Zimbabwe, this place feels something like the promised land.

6.   Disturbing video footage of ragged refugees fleeing the violence has also helped give the far-off conflict a human face.

7.   Every week at that time, hundreds of Central Americans like him sneaked across the border, fleeing political violence in their countries.

8.   In vacant lots and along the long waterfront of Dili, thousands of families fleeing the violence in their own city have created whole settlements of displaced people.

9.   Macedonia, a former Yugoslav republic itself, is fearful of upsetting its own delicate ethnic mix by the influx of ethnic Albanians fleeing the violence in Kosovo.