Stories: Refugees
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A Makeshift Existence
Rutshuru, Democratic Republic of Congo -- Even before fighting flared, Anita Kakule and her smallest son lived on a tattered straw mat in a corner of a schoolroom. When classes met, ...
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CHAPTER 1: Stolen hope: Daughter’s death comes after years of fear, running for a Burmese family
Hser Ner Moo. She is probably dead before anyone reports her missing, still wearing her pink shirt, pink skirt and pink coat, lying face down in the ...
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CHAPTER 2: Parents face delays, confusion in a slow wait for justice
Meet the children of Burma Cartoon walked across the flat, grassy expanse of Elysian Burial Gardens and gently placed Hser Ner Moo’s polka-dotted ...
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CHAPTER 3: After an uneasy start in Utah, parents devastated by daughter’s death
Orientation to a Western lifestyle At Mae La, Hser Ner Moo was her father’s shadow. When he put on his sandals, she put on hers, too. When he ...
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Those lucky enough to get to America not so lucky after all
From New York to Utah, refugees who can’t find a job, don’t have enough food or feel abandoned by caseworkers look for help -- in Thailand. And eight thousand miles away, at ...
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Invited to escape to America, some refugees just say no
Go inside Umpiem refugee camp Four years ago, when the U.S. offered impoverished Burmese refugees freedom in America, thousands of them didn’t ...
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CHAPTER 4: Fleeing grief A mother worries “We may not be able to regain the strength we had before.”
Adapting to life in Iowa News of Hser Ner Moo’s murder raced across the ocean to Mae La, where thousands of families believed immigration to the ...
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Video: Mae La refugee camp
Mae La Refugee camp from Jeremy Harmon on Vimeo. Mae La is the largest refugee camp on the Burma/Thailand border. Thousands of refugees come to the United States from camps like ...
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Video: Hser Ner Moo’s life
Seven-year-old Hser Ner Moo moved to Salt Lake City from a Burmese refugee camp in Thailand with her family. Eight months later she was found dead after she was murdered in an ...
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A Missing Piece: A family’s unrealized dreams reflect the plight of refugees
Click here to view the multi-media package for The Salt Lake Tribune After a lifetime of losses, they believed America would save them. But their ...
