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Family takes long route to new home |
Inside Report for March 12, 2008Family takes long route to new home - By SANDY DAVIS
- Advocate staff writer
- Published: Mar 12, 2008 - Page: 7B
For Toe Myat, his wife and seven children, Baton Rouge seemed like paradise when they arrived in December.More than nine years earlier, the Myats fled Burma — Myanmar — to escape a brutal government that had turned on its own people. “My own country’s soldiers would come to our village and shoot anyone, everyone. They told us they were going to kill everyone in my tribe,” the former farmer said through an interpreter during an interview at a Baton Rouge restaurant. Click here for the rest of the story.
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