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...refugees also got more bad news from the Clinton Administration: Effective this morning, Treasury Department regulations kicked in restricting the money and gifts Cuban Americans can send to Cuba, as well as more severely limiting travel to and from the island. Meanwhile, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) may be called in to oversee the "safe haven" process of relocating Cuban refugees -- mainly to reconcile Clinton's no-asylum policy with a 1951 international treaty intended to protect people genuinely fearing persecution if sent home...
...months ago, when fighting engulfed Kigali. Two hundred and fifty thousand Hutu from the eastern region fled east over the border of Tanzania, in what the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees called "the biggest, fastest exodus" in the agency's history. In so doing, the Hutu created the UNHCR's largest, most crowded refugee camp. Both superlatives, unfortunately, were short-lived. As R.P.F. mortar fire zeroed in on the hills surrounding Gisenyi last Wednesday, another sea of refugees, many originally from the Kigali area, surged out. Jostling along narrow dirt roads, loaded with food, clothes, pots and pans, they...
...UNHCR drivers were unable to get any aid into Sarajevo on the ground last week. Croats halted aid trucks bound for Muslim areas at roadblocks near Mostar and Tomislavgrad. Attempts to negotiate back roads, turned to mud by rain, were abandoned after one truck bearing five tons of badly needed aid slipped into a ravine...
...feeble attempt to stem the flow in early May but backed down when an international outcry ensued. Understandably, Germans are a bit irked that other countries should be so quick to criticize and so slow to act themselves. Many countries haven't even paid their full portion of the UNHCR'S $140 million aid program; as a result, the organization has received only about a third of the funding. Germany fears that the incoming refugees could reach 1 million. "Why would they go back?" asks Oschlies. "All they have there is inflation, unemployment and war, and many of them have...
Europe is beginning to devise a plan. At a meeting two weeks ago in Vienna, representatives from 10 countries, the UNHCR and the Red Cross adopted a strategy to offer displaced persons on-the-spot shelter from the conflict rather than asylum in other countries. While the message can be read as "Stay out," the plan is not entirely cynical: most displaced persons would rather stay put anyway. Fully three-quarters of a group of 2,000 refugees who fled from Dubrovnik to the Italian border province of Friuli last November crossed back into Croatia within three months...