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Goodwill Ambassador Jolie releases journals on Sri Lanka and Kosovo Geneva, (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency's Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie last Monday released two journals offering rare insight into her recent experiences with displaced people in Kosovo and Sri Lanka. The journals, which are available on the UNHCR website, capture the hope and despair of the refugees, returnees and displaced people Jolie met while on mission to these post-conflict societies. In Kosovo from December 27-30 last year, the Goodwill Ambassador visited return sites and met a team of women de-miners in the capital, Pristina. She also travelled to various enclaves in the volatile Mitrovica region, where she met Croatian refugees, minorities and mixed communities. She visited Sri Lanka from April 14-15 this year. Life is hard for Sri Lankans after 20 years of civil war. At the home of a returnee family in the north, Jolie reports, "The wife says simply, "We are finding it very hard to live. Sometimes we think maybe we starve - maybe we will set fire to ourselves. Maybe it will be better somewhere else." The kids tell us, "No, we have to stay strong. It will get better, but I don't know when." But the will to survive is strong. At another house, 'The grandfather points to a large pile of rubble and says, "My brother's, house. He has not seen it yet." He jokes, "Much work to do. There is nothing to do but cry and start all over," writes Jolie. |
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