UN urges China not to return refugees to Burma

The UN is calling on China not to send back refugees who have fled conflictin Burma also known as Myanmar. The appeal comes after the UN's refugee agency reported that up to five thousand people, the majority of them children, have been returned.

Many of them fled fighting between government troops and rebels in Kachin state.

They are now displaced and having to live in makeshift camps because they are too frightened to go home to their villages.

Adrian Edwards of the UNHCR says they are in desperate need of basic supplies of food, medicine and shelter. Listen