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Deported from Burma with a “big star”

June 24th, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · Add a Comment

I was [later] taken to the immigration office at the airport and on my passport they stamped “Deportee” and a big star. And the special branch guy, took a lot of photographs of me from various directions…

- Statement by Korean freelance journalist, Lee Yu Kyong, who was deported from Burma on Sunday, according to a report from Mizzima.

Tags: Burma · Cyclone Nargis · Trans-Border Issues

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