Angelina Jolie tells her story from Myanmar on World Refugee Day

UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie marked World Refugee Day with her fourth visit to the refugee camps in northern Thailand. At Ban Mai Nai Soi camp she met 75-year-old Baw Meh, a Karenni refugee who shared her family’s heartbreaking story of 18 years in exile.

Angelina Jolie tells her story from Myanmar on World Refugee Day.

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