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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bangkok-based group advocating the rights of these boat people. Muzaffar's account appears to amplify other published reports - except in greater detail. He said Thai security forces first forcibly detained him and hundreds of other refugees offshore and then towed them back into international waters in a motorless barge, where they were at the mercy of the shark-infested sea. More than 300 people who were with Muzaffar are missing; they are all believed to be dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abandoned at Sea: The Sad Plight of the Rohingya | 1/18/2009 | See Source »

...There is no better symbol to represent these hopes and illusions than the tire swing. The romance of the tire swing implies lusting after a place where we can indulge in replaying our childlike urges. Motorless, silent, and cheap, it is the embodiment of the make-do, enterprising, and venturesome childhoods which we might possibly have lived ourselves but more likely read about secondhand...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Notes On A Tire Swing | 4/18/2008 | See Source »

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