article_snippet: The victims were Burmese and had entered the United States via Thailand, according to New Bern Police Chief Toussaint Summers, Jr. New Bern is a coastal town and home to about 1,900 Burmese refugees, who resettled in the area after fleeing persecution from the country once called Burma. '
article_snippet: her said the first Burmese refugee came to New Bern around 1999. '
article_snippet: A neighbor who lives about five houses away said there were a lot of Burmese refugees in the neighborhood, and people from other countries.
article_snippet: New Bern is a coastal town and home to about 1,900 Burmese refugees, who resettled in the area after fleeing persecution from the country once called Burma .