Jolie asks Thailand to grant refugees greater freedom

ANGELINA JOLIE has called on Thailand’s government to give more freedom to tens of thousands of Burmese refugees it has kept locked inside camps for up to 20 years.

The Academy Award-winning actress and goodwill ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency visited Thailand’s Ban Mai Nai Soi refugee centre on Wednesday.

“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,” Jolie was quoted as saying yesterday.