Angelina Jolie makes headlines again but this time in Thailand. Yet again she is asking for help to those less fortunate and innocent. Jolie has spent several years as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and Wednesday brought international attention to the refugee problem.
Her request was to permit greater freedom for thousands of refugees stuck in camps after fleeing neighboring Myanmar. There are approximately 110,000 refugees in nine camps. The U.N. estimated that about 5,000 have fled for northern Thailand already.
While visiting the camps Jolie and husband, Brad Pitt, sat down and talked with refugees. One woman told of how she had been born in the camp and was currently raising her children in one and neither of them have been outside the camps.
Jolie is hoping to work with the government to speed up the process of admissions so therefore they do not need to go back to Burma.
--by Mary Baumer (Thailand)
Sunday, February 8, 2009
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