Government Information on Refugees: Refugees in the 1990s

Testimonies of officials directly involved in U.S.-African relations show the role that the U.S. must and already does play in assisting refugees.

This document details U.S. military operations in the midst of government transitions and civil unrest in Caribbean countries during a rise in political refugees from Haiti and Cuba to the United States.

After the ethnic Turks of Bulgaria were expelled to Turkey by the communist regime of the late 1900's, the U.S. instituted a project costing millions of dollars to assist Turkey with resettling Bulgarian refugees. This report serves as an oversight of the project.

Discussion of the U.S. program for interception and screening of Haitian refugees, with a focus on processing problems at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

In this hearing, the U.S. must determine its role in East Timor after the nation declared independence from Indonesia and effectively devise a strategy of response to mass killings, forced relocations, and other human rights violations.

As the Serbians aimed to wipe ethnic Albanians from their land, massive numbers of refugees from the Kosovo region fled from the massacres of the Serb forces. The hearing discusses proper humanitarian action on behalf of the United States and the level of crisis occurring in Kosovo.