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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>7 Year Old Girl from Myanmar (Ethnicity : Zoomi)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The journey from Myanmar to Malaysia took 5 days.  Lia Neino (not her real name) undertook this journey with her mother and bigger sister. As I was getting the story of the crossing from the mother, i turned to her and asked if she remembers it.  Lia nods, and says &#8220;I was afraid and I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyrefugees.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1008126&#038;post=121&#038;subd=fiftyrefugees&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>6 New Born Babies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.unhcr.org/news/NEWS/460400114.html &#160; UNHCR staff celebrate release of babies from detention in Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, March 23 (UNHCR) – The office of the UN refugee agency in Kuala Lumpur was abuzz with excitement as staff awaited the arrival of their guests of honour. Soon they arrived – six babies aged between 30 and 40 days [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyrefugees.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1008126&#038;post=118&#038;subd=fiftyrefugees&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>50 Year Old Man (Iran : Kurdish)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met Hussein (not his real name) at one of the handful of mobile clinics serving refugees. He came to get treatment for his leg, which was swollen. He was walking with a limp, and had his ankle bandaged. He passed me a piece of paper that the doctor had written on &#8211; it said, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyrefugees.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1008126&#038;post=104&#038;subd=fiftyrefugees&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>30 Year Old Man (Sri Lanka : Tamil)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mohan (not his real name) is a small, soft spoken man with a kind face and kind eyes. He is 30, and his wife 28. Mohan used to work as a petrol station attendant in one of the small towns outside Jaffna in Sri Lanka. His younger brother joined the LTAT when he was still [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyrefugees.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1008126&#038;post=103&#038;subd=fiftyrefugees&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>7 and 9 Year Old Brothers (Myanmar : Zomi)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taang Thangho and Taang Liando (not their real names) are brothers. Thangbo is 7, whilst his elder brother is 9. There are the lucky ones. With about 15 others, Thangbo and Liando goes to school run by an NGO in Malaysia. They get picked up everyday and driven back. It soon becomes quite apparent that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyrefugees.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1008126&#038;post=102&#038;subd=fiftyrefugees&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>15 Year Old Girl (Myanmar : Zomi)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; And what is your favourite food, I turn to Lia Mauzuang (not her real name) after asking her 7 year old sister the same question. Smiling, she says &#8220;KFC!&#8221; (Kentucky Fried Chicken). Hot and Spicy or Original? &#8220;Spicy&#8221;. Mauzuang, a 15 year old girl, seems like your typical teenager. Everyday, she reads, cooks, watches [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyrefugees.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1008126&#038;post=101&#038;subd=fiftyrefugees&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>45 Year Old Mother (Myanmar : Shan)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OA says she is 45 years old, but looks easily 10 years older. Double checking, I ask what year she was born towards the end of the interview. &#8220;1965&#8243;, she says. So she really is 45. But sitting next to LA who is only 3 years her junior, she looks old enough to be the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyrefugees.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1008126&#038;post=100&#038;subd=fiftyrefugees&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>6 Year Old Girl (Myanmar : Karen)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wah Wah has never been out, apart from the one time she went with her late father to watch a movie in one of the shopping centres. That was 4 years ago. Naw Wah Wah (not her real name) is 6 going on 7 this year. According to her mother, Wah Wah is &#8220;exactly like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyrefugees.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1008126&#038;post=99&#038;subd=fiftyrefugees&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>55 Year Old Man from Myanmar (Ethnicity : Karen)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saw Lay Doh Wah (not his real name) died last year in Malaysia from TB. He was 55. He died in a small wooden hut that he lived with together with his wife and baby daughter. Here is Saw Lay, in his wife&#8217;s words. &#8220;I met Saw Lay at the water festival. I was singing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyrefugees.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1008126&#038;post=98&#038;subd=fiftyrefugees&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>42 Year Old Myanmar Woman (Ethnicity : Karen)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Naw Lwe Wah (not her real name), a 42 year old Karen mother, has been living in Malaysia for 10 years. Her husband, a government official back in their village, fled Myanmar 5 years earlier to Malaysia because he was involved in the pro-democracy movement and was in danger of being prosecuted. What is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyrefugees.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1008126&#038;post=97&#038;subd=fiftyrefugees&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>35 Year Old Karen Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HERE is my beautiful Story&#8230;&#8230;.. I&#8217;m Saw  Ler Moo (not his real name) Karen ethnic and Christian , both of my parents were also ethnic , my mother was Karen . My Father was a Buddhist and my mother was a Christian. All of my 4 siblings are Christians as well. My mother was a gazetted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyrefugees.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1008126&#038;post=96&#038;subd=fiftyrefugees&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>34 Year Old Woman From Myanmar (Ethnicity : Chin)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Par Iang (not her real name) just found out she was pregnant with her fourth child when she had to flee her village in Myanmar. &#8220;My brother&#8217;s son was arrested and imprisoned for being in the CNF. I visited him at the prison, giving him food and support. After that they accused me of being [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyrefugees.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1008126&#038;post=84&#038;subd=fiftyrefugees&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>33 Year Old Man from Myanmar (Ethnicity : Zomi)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It is not the facilities that I like, but the feeling of freedom in my heart&#8221; Taang Haangsaai (not his real name) is one of the lucky ones. He was resettled to Melbourne about four months ago. Haangsaai actually wanted to delay his resettlement because being a community leader here in Malaysia, he wanted to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyrefugees.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1008126&#038;post=87&#038;subd=fiftyrefugees&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>33 Year Old Man from Myanmar (Ethnicity : Zomi)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This is the only way I can help my people.&#8230;This is my true duty&#8221; Taang Penglam (not his real name) was in his final year at University, studying Chemistry, when he participated in the demonstrations of 1996. Shortly after, all the Universities in Myanmar were closed and he found himself on the run. As a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyrefugees.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1008126&#038;post=86&#038;subd=fiftyrefugees&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>6 Month Old Baby Girl from Myanmar (Ethnicity : Chin)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KA is six months old. Her name means &#8220;God is good to me&#8221;. And God has been good to her. Born in Kajang prison, KA and her mother were released 3 weeks after with the help of UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees). She slept in her mother&#8217;s arms for most of the interview, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyrefugees.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1008126&#038;post=85&#038;subd=fiftyrefugees&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>30 Year Old Man From Myanmar (Ethnicity : Chin)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listening to Van Vel Thang&#8217;s (not his real name) story was like listening to a tourist rate the various hotels he&#8217;s been to in Malaysia. Only the &#8220;hotels&#8221; were the various detentions centres that he was detained and shuffled back and forth over a period of 7 months. Vel Thang was arrested by the Immigration [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyrefugees.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1008126&#038;post=83&#038;subd=fiftyrefugees&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>30 Year Old Man From Myanmar (Ethnicity : Chin)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“They told me to take my clothes off. They told me to face a wooden rack. They spread my arms and then tied both my hands to the wooden rack. The person who whipped me was big and tall. More than 6 feet tall. He held this long cane&#8221;, and with this FA spread his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyrefugees.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1008126&#038;post=82&#038;subd=fiftyrefugees&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fatima and Jalaludin</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the International Medical NGO Medecins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders) http://www.msf.org/source/countries/asia/malaysia/2007/gallery/fj/fj1.html We left Myanmar in 2003 and worked for a short while in Thailand. But we were scared that the police might catch us, so we decided to come to Malaysia. We found an &#8216;agent&#8217; &#8211; someone who knows how to get people over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyrefugees.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1008126&#038;post=77&#038;subd=fiftyrefugees&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chin Man, 30 (Paul)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the International Medical NGO Medecins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders) http://www.msf.org/source/countries/asia/malaysia/2007/gallery/paul/paul1.html I grew up in Chin state in the west of Myanmar. Things were very difficult for my family because &#8211; like many people &#8211; we were frequently forced to work for the military. My parents had a small farm but it was hard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fiftyrefugees.wordpress.com&#038;blog=1008126&#038;post=76&#038;subd=fiftyrefugees&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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