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Old 05-14-2008, 06:27 PM   #16
peter12
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Originally Posted by moncton golden flames View Post
My girlfriend is volunteering for the Calgary Immigration Society, and is helping a refugee Karen family from Burma. They have shown us DVD's of the way the current governement treats them; rapes women, burns villages, kills for no reason and forces the Karen to live in fear running thru the forest trying to find food. It brings a tear to the eye everytime.
Hey... My family and I have been helping a Karen family this year through the Catholic Immigration Service. Same story. Driven from their country, half their extended family killed by the state.

It's a terrible tragedy that so many in the West don't know anything about.
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