1. Aid workers say the refugees are often intimidated by the militias, who do not want them to return to East Timor. 2. For two weeks, aid workers have said they thought the government might be trying to intimidate refugees to keep them away from places where supplies were being distributed. 3. NATO opposes that, on the ground that it could only intimidate the refugees who have been driven from their homes in recent months. 4. Over the last two years, they have intimidated the refugees into staying in Zaire and seem to be making a last, desperate attempt to keep them there. 5. This should not turn into an opportunity for Milosevic to intimidate returning refugees. 6. Those soldiers became guerrillas who intimidated most refugees against returning and used the U.N. camps as bases for raids into Rwanda. 7. Earlier this month, Vietnamese officials who visited the camp tried to intimidate the refugees into returning to Vietnam, said Janowski. 8. KNU officials and other observers believe the attacks are meant to intimidate the refugees into returning to Burma, depriving the KNU of its constituency. 9. Tens of thousands of former army soldiers and civilian militiamen control the camps and intimidate refugees who might otherwise go home. 10. The camp has been torched twice by invaders from Myanmar in an effort to intimidate the refugees into going back to that country. |