"Life in a refugee camp is no different than a life in a bird cage. Your freedom is very limited within the cage and totally disconnected from the outside world. Every day you have to eke out your monotonous, deprived day-to-day life in a confined refugee camp surrounded by barbed wire.
You are not allowed to go outside the refugee camp to work so that you can earn some money to provide your family basic needs. If you are caught doing so, they will arrest you, ask you to pay fine, give you punishment, detain you and sometimes deport you back to Burma. We have a very inferior status and are frequently mistreated."
–Klo Say, a refugee from Burma brought to the US by World Relief
as told to reporter, Tina Firesheets, of the News Record. Watch |
