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...instead ignore. And so I brought a Tibetan flag with me—a symbol that is banned in China, just to remind Wen that it exists, that it represents the history and hopes of 6 million people inside Tibet and over 130,000 outside who have had to flee their homeland. Wen said in his talk that he really likes young people. I believe him—he seemed a thoughtful man who genuinely cares about his country and its people. But I would ask him to go to Tibet and talk to the Tibetan youth there. Ask them...
...Somalis of Abdi Salan's generation. He was 11 when the civil war broke out in 1991. Since then, more than a million Somalis have died in the violence and some 429,000 refugees have scattered around the world. Looking at his crippled friend, Abdi Salan decides to flee. "When you're young, you don't really think about leaving home," he says, speaking through a translator. "But when I saw what happened to my friend, I understood that in Mogadishu you can get killed anywhere, for any reason." Abdi Salan has cousins in Denmark and Norway, but no specific...
...wish this had been the scene of an actual crime and I had been a jewel thief racing to flee the cops. Instead, my loot was the 24 sheets of film necessary to print an FM issue last spring, the scene was Charles River Printing, and my not-so-awake accomplice was FM Co-Chair Liz Maher. It was the aftermath of something far more criminal than a robbery or homicide: It was a typical FM production night, which meant it was the following day—and near the end of a seemingly eternal abyss of time...
...Order will be restored, and the criminals will be punished." EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE, President of Georgia, after protesters stormed the former Soviet republic's parliament and forced him to flee the hall in what he later described as a coup d'etat...
...Every year thousands of Tibetans flee to Nepal,” he said. “Why? If it was for economic reasons they would go to Shanghai. They flee because they lack. They do not enjoy autonomy in education or culture...