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Burma Exiles: My Feature in Le Monde

Dr Thaung Htun sits in a cab, stuck in the suffocating Bangkok traffic, and ponders the future. He has been a frequent visitor to the city over the last two decades and is back now for good. But this is not his home. He is one of perhaps 100,000 Burmese political exiles, and more than 1 million Burmese refugees in total, spanning the world, from squalid camps on the Thai-Burma border to outposts in Thailand, India, the US, Canada, Europe and Australia. And, despite improvements in his country and a burning desire to return home, he still can’t go back…(more)…

James
James is the author of Virus, a political thriller now available through Amazon
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