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July 5th, 2006 - 03:56PM |
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Photo: Anna Husarska/International Rescue Committee This 62-year-old ethnic Chin was a member in Burma of the National Democracy League, headed by the Nobel-prize winner Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. He refused to sign the declaration self-disbanding the NLD in his village. A refugee in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, since 2004 he now has his “home” reduced to a rolled up mattress stored next to the Christmas tree at the Chin refugee Center where he is night guard. He hopes to join his sister’s family which lives in Dallas, TX. Although he has never even met anyone from the Chin National Army, he may be barred from entering the United States by unintended consequences of post-9/11 antiterrorism provisions. Posted By: Kathleen Sands | Photo Shares Permalink |
