Story+2-Ja+Roi

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==== Hi my name is Ja Roi. I’m from Myanmar. I’m 14 years old and I’m living as refugee in this Malaysia. My race is kachin I’m a Christian. I’ll like to talk one of my real story in my life. When I first arrived here I don’t like English at all but with the help from some Myanmar people around us and we go to the school that **__part(0:21)__** of from community we living in setapak to acodak plate block D and in that time that’s a lot of blackmail cases happened in the block that we lived especially in the lift It was from the some gang of teenagers were the citizens of this country. ==== ====We had just arrived not even about two weeks yet and the cases and the cases are happening already. For us this place is really weird because we just arrived and really scared because we haven’t get our UN card yet. In outside we had to afraid of police and when we come back to home we still to only afraid of those of gang of teenagers instead of blackmail it’s also kind of bully I think because we are from the other countries-different people, different races. I think those teenagers suggest about same age with my brother they got ten years old twelve years old thirteen years old fifteen years old and just around nineteen something I guess. ==== ====They’re not just blackmail to the children. They’re also blackmail to the older people also. Because they know the even though we go and complain also nothing happen to them. Not just blackmail money from us but they also have been rip a lot of the Myanmar ladies in lift some died because of that cases. I don’t know how they feel when they’re doing such those kind of rubbish but every cases that they make to us will affect that to every family member. ==== ====We have to live in this like of situation we have no freedom for ourselves or for our heart or even for our brain like. We have to go somewhere we have to used to lift to go down or go up to isn’t it. So we have to live in the place that had full of fear and scare and thinking when will they come when will they come. When I am waiting for lift I am always almost shaking every time because I am scared of them. They can come in anytime isn’t it. So they blackmail money from my brother and when my brother say that he don’t have then they bullied my brother punch him and knock his head and say rubbish words in Malay to my brother. Well in that time, we are just arrived so my brother couldn’t understand what they’re saying to him. But he know the kind of bully. ==== ==== It’s kind of rubbish words bad words. They checked all of pockets and they found 50 cents from my brother pocket but that is for both of us fill water in the water bottle because my mother ask both of us go to ground floor and get water. But I can’t believe that even 50 cents so so they take and **__displite(3:16)__** to my brother and when the lift reached the ground floor and we wanted to go out and one of and one of the guys pull my head. And he was saying a lot to me Malay with disgusting expression in that while I only know scare I want to cry only and and in that short moment that feeling that feeling is the feeling that I don’t ever had been feel in my life. ==== ==== I don’t know what to do at all but after he finished with his words I relieved and he just let go of me and we’ve moved to another area we just still in stapak. Stapak but in the different area a bit far from this area and it’s in **__cnical(4:07)__** condo because that condo is guard, security card so we no need to afraid that kind and now we can live slightly comfortable than we lived last year. Although this is not 100% peaceful but I am still happy with it. Thank you. ====

=**Information about Myanmar:**= Burma, also known as Myanmar, was long considered a pariah state, isolated from the rest of the world with an appalling human rights record.

> is under-developed and riddled with corruption
 * **Official name**: Republic of the Union of Myanmar (previously Union of Myanmar; Union of Burma )
 * **Population**: 48.7 million (UN, 2012)
 * **Capital**: Nay Pyi Taw
 * **Largest city**: Rangoon (Yangon)
 * **Area**: 676,552 sq km (261,218 sq miles)
 * **Major languages**: Burmese, indigenous ethnic languages
 * **Major religions**: Buddhism, Christianity, Islam
 * **Main exports**: Teak, pulses and beans, prawns, fish, rice, opiates, oil and gas
 * **Economy**: Burma is one of Asia's poorest countries; its economy

@http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar @http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12990563

**Refugees**
According to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Myanmar is the largest source of refugees in Southeast Asia; globally, it ranked 13th behind Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia at end-2008. The root causes of Myanmar's refugee exodus lie in the ethnic and political conflicts since independence in 1948 from the British. About two-thirds of the population are ethnic Burmese, while the remainder are Shan, Karen, Rakhine, Chinese, Mon and Indian, as well as the Akha, Chin, Danu, Kachin, Kokang, Lahu, Naga, Palaung, Pao, Rohingya, Tavoyan and Wa peoples. There are about 135 ethnic sub-groups, according to the government. The minorities live mostly in the hills and mountains bordering Bangladesh, China, India, Laos and Thailand, while the Burmese are found in the central alluvial plains and major towns and cities. Burmese refugee populations are mainly found in Thailand, Malaysia, Bangladesh and India, though some Rohingya travel as far afield as Saudi Arabia. There are three solutions to any refugee crisis, says UNHCR: voluntary repatriation to the country of origin, integration into the asylum country, and resettlement in a third country as a final measure.Recognizing that voluntary repatriation is not a real option, and that settling in asylum countries such as Thailand is difficult, donor countries have offered in recent years to resettle thousands of Burmese refugees. Since 2004, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has helped to resettled more than 57,000 Burmese refugees from Thailand who belonged to the Karen and Karenni ethnic groups. They were mostly resettled in the US, as well as Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

@http://www.irinnews.org/in-depth/87861/82/myanmar-s-refugees-still-on-the-run

Ja's interview media type="custom" key="23377972"

Q : Why you came here?
====Ja Roi : We came here. Because in our country. We are from Myanmar but we are not Burmese. The government their race, their nationality in Myanmar is Burmese. We are Kachin. That’s the why. Now also got Kachin and Burmese they are fighting. They got war. Because of that we can’t live there. We have to come here. We are here for UNHCR (02:05~02:55)====

Q : So They’re still fighting. And Burmese is the government.
====Ja Roi : Because in that country they’re not, government is not all the part of like Sabah,Sarawak something it’s still Malaysia. We are something like there. If this is our Myanmar Map. Then our Kachins’ place is top here. So they want to make all the place become themselves. They’re for them. They want to fight for the place.====

Q : So your place is also a part of Myanmar. Kachin, they want their own place. Kachin don’t want to join them?
====Ja Roi : No It’s just like this. They are already do the contract they will not fight again. It’s ours already. But then they broke the promise again they fight again. They want place all to be Burmese one. Yes that’s the why. (03:30~04:40)====

Q : So how is your life there? I mean.. are they violent?
====Ja Roi : Yes. My father also passed away because of them. Because we don’t know very well. Because we are in the our uncle’s house. Because our state is a village Christian village something that. We have to go to the, how to say, like If in malaysian means from negeri and then here KL we have to come like this. So the our city then there’s one house is in our uncles. we stay in here and we learn and then our mother and father visit us one year they visited us five or six times like this. Then they worked there they stayed in village. Then Burmese their soliders come and not just our parents they take all the citizen in that village they ask to them to work for them. They also used to rip a lot of the Kachin ladies also.==== ====Because their bully is a lot. They’re not just asking for their help. They asked them to work and also beat and bully them. My mother one day I heard that my mother said they ran away from that work and then they saw my father and then they shot. (04:49~07:00)====