The team, which visited Muslim refugees in Croatia, concluded that mass rapes there were a strategy of war and not just crimes of opportunity by individual soldiers.

By contrast, when Secretary of State Baker visited Kurdish refugees in Turkey yesterday, he saw a sea of suffering.

Without the protection of diplomatic immunity he visited internment camps and sheltered Jewish refugees in his house.

His wife, Raquel Blandon de Cerezo, visited refugees in Mexico and urged them to come back.

He took a plane to South Africa to meet Italian POWs and to Jerusalem to visit Jewish refugees.

On 5 October 2007, Williams visited Iraqi refugees in Syria.

While in the Merchant Marine he visited Jewish refugees living in squalor in Shanghai.

But that hope faded after Mr. Baker visited Kurdish refugees around the Turkish mountain village of Cukurca on April 8.

Some of the laureates will travel to north-west Thailand today to visit Burmese refugees there.

She often went to the scene herself, visiting refugees in Bosnia and Burundi fleeing to the relative safety in Tanzania.