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Speaking of International Criminal Court’s Darfur investigation, the “Wanted” actress wrote, “The evidence the prosecutor has presented is clear and compelling… millions of people have been displaced and hundreds of thousands have been killed.”

She continued, “Darfur has almost disappeared from the news, and experts now call it a ‘low intensity’ conflict. But the intensity of the crisis has not lessened for those who are struggling to survive.”

“More than 250,000 people from Darfur have lived destitute lives in refugee camps in Chad for six years now. Camps with more than two million internally displaced persons inside Darfur are even worse. Thirty percent of those displaced are school-age children. Girls leaving the camps are raped; boys leaving the camps are killed. They want an education; they want to go back to their villages, to their land; they want peace. But they also want justice.”

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UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie visits Karenni refugees in northern Thailand (Ban Mai Nai Soi refugees camp, Mae Hong Son) on February 4.

Angelina Jolie has called on the Thai government to grant Myanmar refugees in northern Thailand greater freedom of movement, after spending a day listening to refugees tell of the difficulties they have faced in two decades of living in closed camps.

And she said “I was saddened to meet a 21-year-old woman who was born in a refugee camp, who has never even been out of the camp and is now raising her own child in a camp,” after her visit Wednesday to Ban Mai Nai Soi camp, home to 18,111 mainly Karenni registered refugees, just three kms from the Myanmar border, near Mae Hong Son.

“With no foreseeable chance that these refugees will soon be able to return to Burma (Myanmar), we must find some way to help them work and become self reliant,” she said.

“I hope we can work with the Thai authorities to speed up the government admissions process and that you will not be forced to go back to Burma if danger remains,” Jolie said.

“Visiting Ban Mai Nai Soi and seeing how hospitable Thailand has been to 111,000 mostly Karen and Karenni refugees over the years makes me hope that Thailand will be just as generous to the Rohingya refugees who are now arriving on their shores,” Jolie said.

“I also hope the Rohingya situation stabilizes and their life in Myanmar improves so the people do not feel the desperate need to flee, especially considering how dangerous their journey has become,” she added. “As with all people, they deserve to have their human rights respected.”

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In it the actress, eyes brimming and her face a picture of concern, struggles with her emotions as she meets returning refugees and sees with her own eyes the difficult circumstances in which they are living.

At one point she is shown talking to en elderly man, who weeps as he explains his story. Clearly moved by his plight, the actress and humanitarian instinctively reaches out to clasp his hand in a comforting gesture.

The scene unfolded as Angelina spent two days in the Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan where she witnessed the hardships being faced by families are struggling to rebuild their lives.

Describing the flood of returnees as “one of the largest population movements in recent history,” in the narrative she explains: “They have suffered so much, yet the Afghan people are so gracious and open.”

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“Over the past seven years, I’ve worked with UNHCR and I’ve traveled around the world trying to bring attention to refugees,” she said. “It’s been a remarkable education.”

Jolie, who has visited dozens of war-torn countries around the world, spoke passionately on behalf of the victims she’s met. “I’ve seen refugees return to live among the same people who attacked them,” she said. “They are returning to the same lawlessness that sent them running in the first place. I’ve seen aid workers tear up as they put ladies on a bus and say, ‘I don’t know what we’re sending them back to.’”

Jolie’s remarks personalized the symposium, which featured a discussion by foreign policy experts (including advisers to Senators Barack Obama and John McCain) on the pursuit of justice – using courts, diplomacy, and military action – and its role in international peace. Of particular importance: how to proceed in Darfur and U.S. participation in the International Criminal Court.

“I don’t know if the ICC is the answer. And I don’t know what type of court is, or what it would need to be to make all of us agree and make it strong enough,” Jolie admitted. “But I do know this: No mother who had her children killed in front of her, no young girl sold into slavery, no boy kidnapped and forced to be a child soldier and no young girl like the 3-year-old I met in Sierra Leone, who had her limbs cut off, should be expected to simply forget. No one should have to choose between peace and justice.”

In addition to the symposium, sponsored by the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, Jolie joined Microsoft Corp and 25 leading law firms to launch KIND, an initiative to provide legal counsel to immigrant childred who enter the U.S. without an adult. Over 8000 children, many of whom do not speak English and are victims of persecution, torture or trafficking, flee to the U.S. each year and are forced to wind their way through the legal system without an attorney. KIND hopes to fill that need completely by the year 2010.

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