From VOA Learning English,this is IN THE NEWS.Americans continue to follow reports on peopleand events linked to a bomb attackmore than a week ago during the Boston Marathon.Two young men are accused of carrying out the attack.The two are brothers.The surviving suspect told investigatorsthat he and his older brother had plannedto drive to New York City to explode more bombs.Nineteen year old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev spoke from a hospitalwhere he was taken after his capture.His older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev,died last week after a gun fight with police.He was 26 years old.Police say the brothers caused two explosionsnear the finish line for the race.The explosions killed three people,including an eight-year- old boyand wounded more than 250 others.The Tsarnaev brothers came to the United Stateswith their family as refugeesfrom the Chechen conflict with Russia.Silvia Dominguez teaches sociologyat Northeastern University in Boston.She says it is important to notethat the Tsarnaev brothers were not immigrants,but refugees forced from their homelandby danger and conflict.She says refugees carry strong beliefsabout the conflicts they fled.She says this is especially true when they leave areaswhere they experienced unfair treatment."The ideology around themis very significant and very powerful.And, there is an aspect of injusticethat is very difficult to not want to act on."Russian officials had warned America'sFederal Bureau of Investigation about the older brotherafter he visited Russia for six months last year.American investigators have questionedthe mother and father in Dagestan,where they now live separately.The investigators wanted to learn if Tamerlan Tsarnaevhad contacts with Islamist extremists.Professor Dominquez says it is possiblethat the older brother never developed an identityas an American because he left the Caucasus areaduring the Chechen conflict.She says young refugees know they were lucky to get outbut also know that many others could not escape.She says those who leave at a young ageneed to have a sense of belonging in their new country.She says it is very important to have activitiesto get young refugees involved."You know this is not just in the United States.It's any country that receives refugees."Television broadcasts show Zubiedat Tsarnaevaarguing that her sons did not carry out the crimes.She says accusations against themare false and part of a plot.Enrique Pumar teaches sociologyat the Catholic University of America in Washington.His recent research deals with migration and violence.He notes that the Tsarnaev familywas divided with the father and mother in Russia,and their sons in the United States.He says it is much more difficultto adapt to a different countrywithout the support of a family or a community."A lot of times immigrants that are aloneand don't have a community and support groupoftentimes they suffer from status deprivation.They tend to be violent or at least deviant."Police have charged Dzhokhar Tsarnaevwith using a weapon of mass destruction.The crime is punishable by death.And that's IN THE NEWS from VOA Learning English.Go to 51voa.com for more...