Many gather in the seedy, menacing border village of Tecum Uman, whence they cross the Suchiate river to Mexico.
The survivors had said they were Muslims from a border village between Burma and Bangladesh, and that they had intended to seek asylum in Indonesia or Australia, Mr Jayakody added.
Meanwhile, South Korea said the North appeared to have cut the inter-Korean phone link at the border village of Panmunjom, through which the two sides communicate on issues along the border.
Separately, South Korea said the North appeared to have cut the inter-Korean phone link at the border village of Panmunjom, through which the two sides communicate on issues along the border.
Corporal Meyer maintained security at a patrol rally point, while other members of his team moved on foot with two platoons of Afghan National Army and border police into the village of Ganjgal for a pre-dawn meeting with village elders.
But now she's afraid to move back to her home village on the border.
NPR's Philip Reeves visited one village close to the border and sent this report.
The Americans are still investigating an incident two weeks ago in a village near the Macedonian border, when a morning of mortar-fire wounded ten Kosovar civilians, and killed three people.
One of the biggest battles in the area was on Thursday when the Syrian army captured Tal al-Nabi Mindo, a village near the Lebanese border, after a day of heavy fighting.
Shattered by his friend's sudden and violent death, an increasingly resolute Mehmet places Berzan's corpse into a plain wooden coffin and vows to bury him in his native village, near the Iraqi border.
She was a member of the higher-caste Jaat community and from the same village, Mehrana, near the border with Haryana state.
The team was to have moved on from Abassiyeh to the village of Ghajar, on the border between Lebanon and the Golan Heights area, which Israel captured from Syria in 1967.
The small village of Dubie, near the Zambian border, is at the center of a humanitarian crisis.
The third platoon of the 53rd Field Hospital arrived in a small village in Holland not far from the German border.
Bodner's birth father also died there but his mother, Roza Gottesman-Berger, not only survived several Nazi concentration camps, but returned to her home village of Stroino on the Ukraine-Hungary border, hoping to find her children.
While pleased with the U.S. moves, the opposition appeared deeply disappointed, especially as it lost some ground in the latest clashes with Syrian troops backed by pro-government gunmen capturing at least one village in a strategic area near the Lebanese border.
Abu Alawa is a village elder who talks fondly about the cross-border, inter-communal relationships before the fighting began.
In the village of Kasia(ph), near the border with Zimbabwe, Judith Kayaba(ph) is weeding a vegetable patch with three of her sons.
On a cold and rain-washed morning, high up in the Himalayas, we made our way towards the small village of Gue, just 9km from the Tibetan border, to see what surprise Suraj had in store.
And so, on his way up to the Chinese border, he decided to make a short detour and visit the village.
She is from Al-Hurath village in Jizan province, in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen.
After learning of the marriage, the commission sent an investigator to the girl's home in Al-Hurath village in Jizan province, in southwestern Saudi Arabia near the border with Yemen.
One attack occurred late Thursday and into Friday near Para Village, not far from the west-central African nation's border with Liberia, according to the United Nations.
The village is located in a highly mountainous part of Waziristan close to the Afghan border.
Some 500 Buddhist monks and scholars from across South Asia and the West have gathered in the tiny village of Lumbini, a long day's bus ride from Kathmandu on the Indian border.
In June last year they rescued two people, including a 13-year old girl kidnapped by the LRA from the village of Kidi, about 12km from the town of Yambio, close to the DR Congo border.
Pooja's family lives in a small village in Bikaner district, just 2km (1.2 miles) from the India-Pakistan border fence.
Lebanon's Al-Mayadeen TV, that has several reporters around Syria, said one of the strikes targeted a military position in the village of Saboura, west of Damascus and about 10 kilometers (six miles) from the Lebanon border.
By pushing some people from Bangladesh over the border, the BDR managed to divert India's attention, forcing officials to concentrate on the area between the village of Mathabhanga, in India, and Lalmonirhat in Bangladesh, analysts say.
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