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7 Year Old Girl from Myanmar (Ethnicity : Zoomi) 19 Jul 2007 | 04:50 pm

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...

6 New Born Babies 19 Jul 2007 | 05:25 am

http://www.unhcr.org/news/NEWS/460400114.html   UNHCR staff celebrate release of babies from detention in Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, March 23 (UNHCR) – The office of the UN refugee agency in Kua...

50 Year Old Man (Iran : Kurdish) 18 Jul 2007 | 07:21 pm

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 banda...

30 Year Old Man (Sri Lanka : Tamil) 18 Jul 2007 | 07:10 pm

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 Jaff...

7 and 9 Year Old Brothers (Myanmar : Zomi) 18 Jul 2007 | 07:06 pm

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 b...

15 Year Old Girl (Myanmar : Zomi) 18 Jul 2007 | 07:02 pm

  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 “KFC!” (Kentucky Fried Chicken). Hot and Spicy or ...

45 Year Old Mother (Myanmar : Shan) 18 Jul 2007 | 07:00 pm

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. “1965″, she says. So she really is 45. But sitting next to...

6 Year Old Girl (Myanmar : Karen) 18 Jul 2007 | 06:56 pm

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...

55 Year Old Man from Myanmar (Ethnicity : Karen) 18 Jul 2007 | 06:53 pm

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 wi...