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Kip Te's Story


 * **Information of Myanmar **

====Myanmar, which is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia, is bordered by China, Thailand, India, Laos and Bangladesh. It officially full name is the "Republic of the Union of Myanmar". It also names Burma. It is the world’s 24th most populous country with a population of over 60 million. Besides, an area of 676,578km2 makes it to be the 40th largest country in the world and second largest in Southeast Asia. Myanmar’s capital city is Naypyidaw. National currency of Myanmar is Kyat. ====

====Burma’s GDP(in 2011) stood at US$ 82.7 billion with growing at an annual rate of 5.5% because it is a country which is rich in precious stones, oil, natural gas and other mineral resources. Furthermore, the inflation rate (CPI) in 2011 in Myanmar is about 4.2% and the unemployment rate for Myanmar in 2011 is 5.5%, which is considered almost full employment. ====

====However, it is one of the poorest countries in Southeast Asia. Although schooling is compulsory until the end of elementary school, which is about 9 years old, the international level of compulsory schooling age is 15 or 16. It has shown that the education in Myanmar is relatively lower if compare to international level. ====

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= = = = = = =Information of Hometown of the Interviewee = = = = = =Chin State = ||
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 * [[image:chin_state.jpg width="161" height="254"]] || Chin State is located in the west of Myanmar, which bordering by India, Bangladesh, Rakhine State, Sagaing Division and Magway Division. It covers an area of about 36,019km2. The capital of Chin State is Hakha. Besides, Chin State has a population of 473000. According to the government statistic of 2003, Chin State had only 25 high schools which show that Chin State did not have a very good education level. Furthermore, the health care at Chin State is poor as it is nominally free and most of the public hospitals lack of their basic facilities and equipment.

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“A refugee is a person who is outside his or her country of origin or habitual residence because they have suffered (or fear) persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or because they are a member of a persecuted 'social group' or because they are fleeing a war or natural disaster. Such a person may be called to as an 'asylum seeker' until recognized by the state where they make a claim.”(from Wikipedia)
 * **Information of Refugee Situation in Myanmar ** ||
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Refugees of Myanmar is normally the minority tribespeople (such as the Shan, Mon, Karen, Karenni, Arkanese, etc.) that fleeing from Myanmar because of the persecution of the Military Junta. They had become refugees because when Burma became independent in 1948, the minority tribespeople did not want to join Burma. After a few years, the Military Junta took control and attacked the minority tribespeople. They forced to flee to neighbouring country and become refugees or illegal immigrants.

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 * Original Story of Kip Te ||
 * My name is Hlawn Kip Tial. I was born in 1996 august 10. I was born in small Chin State in Myanmar. My parents’ name are Mr. Ram Ceu Thang and Mrs. Ngun Tha Cer. When I was young. I lived with my aunty who is my mother’s sister. She has four girls and a boy. They really love me and I also live them. We were like real siblings. Their parents are called father and mother by me. For the first three years, my mom lived with me in her sister’s house. After that, my mom went to India for a business. After one year, she got married with man, who is same village with her, after they come back from India to Hmunlipi village.

When I was four years old, I did an operation because I had appendix. During that time, all of my relatives were so worried for me. In the beginning, my stomach was pain and I told my aunty. She told me to go to toilet for many times. She thought that my stomach was pain because I wanted to pee. After I could not do for many times, we went to a clinic and the doctor told us that there was something in my stomach. So, we needed to go to a hospital as fast as we could.

When we reached the hospital, the doctor watched me and checked my stomach. Then he said I needed to be done an operation. But he said he couldn’t do me the operation because I was very young so, he was afraid of doing me that. He told to all of my relatives to go to the capital of Chin which is Hakha. If they did not take me to there. I would be died.

So, all of my relatives asked him to do in Than Tiong. Even if we went to Hakha, I would be died on the way. That why they asked him to do so, but he really was afraid of me. The reason why I needed to do the operation was that I ate a lot of sunflowers with not taking off the cover and ate up all. So, when these were a lot of sunflowers in my stomach, it was pain. The doctor confused them but they did give up anyway. They said to him that even if he didn’t do me the operation, I must die in that hospital but if he did me with scaring, may be I would be healed luckily. They asked him again and again and again. Finally, he decided to do the operation because he sorrowed them very much, so, he told them that he would do the operation on that next day.

He tried and he did it. So, I am healed now. Starting of that day, my family loved me more than before. I am so glad that this is the help of God. So, I always thanks to God. I know that he can do everything. I can’t stop praising him. We should try something new that we never do. It may heal another life. Thank you for reading my story.

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=**Audio of the Interview**= media type="custom" key="23360772"

|| Actually I really pray to god, I really thanks to god because if god didn’t help me and use the (inaudible), I were died that time. I really thanks to god.
 * =**Transcription of the Interview**=
 * My name is Hlawn Kip Tial, and I was born in 1996, 10 of August in Myanmar, Chin State in Myanmar. It is a small town and my parent names are Mr. Ram Ceu Thang and Mrs Ngun Tha Cer. When I was young, my parent divorced. So I lived with my mum in my mother’s sister’s house in the village. And there aunty has 5 children, 4 girls and 1 boys. They really love me and I also love them. So, my aunty and my uncle, I don’t call aunty and uncle by me, I called them father and mother when I lived with them. So……we were like real siblings. And after that for three years, my mother lived at her sister’s house, after that, she went to India (Inaudible) India to have business. She went and sell clothes and (inaudible) like that. So, I lived with them and I study. So, when I was 4 years old, I got stomachache, I went to my aunty and I told her:” Aunty, my stomach is very pain.” But she was very very busy because she has a small business, she sells clothes and something, so, she was really busy that time, so, she said:” Just go to the toilet lah.” I went to the toilet but she thought I need to pee, I cannot do that. I cannot do that so I went again and told her, she would like:” erm…just go lah.” So, I am only 4 years old, I didn’t know everything so I went again and I still “hrm…erm…” cannot, haha, and I wouldn’t go again, so I was(inaudible) ok, I went to the bed and I sleep. So at night, the shop, my aunty shop was closed, after that, they came to the bed, in the bed, then my stomach was really pain that time, so I told them, “my aunty, my stomach is really pain, I cannot go to pee.” So, my aunty is that ”this should be something because during daytime she told me”, erh, I told her, so we went to a clinic, small clinic. So, the doctor told us that, the doctor checked me and told my aunty that, wow, something is in my stomach, “so, you need to go to the hospital, as fast as possible. So we will in hurry to go to the hospital, then the doctor checked me, checked my stomach, so the doctor told us that “Wow! This child…something is in her stomach. “So I need to have an operation. But that time I was 4 years old only, so she didn’t dare to do the operation, because I was so young. So I hope you all know that Myanmar is a very (inaudible, 4:30) country, so that time the hospital at the that town is very good to do, like the operation, emergency. So, she told my relatives that “Just go to the capital of Chin, just go and do the operation. “ That was night, so, the doctor B:” If you go there” I would die on the way. So, that time, he didn’t dare to do the operation as well. So, my relatives begged him to do the operation, but he really didn’t dare to do the operation. So, they ask him again and again and again, so he finally gives up, so, okay, so, this is night, so I cannot do at night, so in the morning I will do. Because the village that (inaudible) we are in, and the capital is Chin State, is not very far, but we need to go for…like some hours. So, I would die on the way. (Inaudible). So, the doctor decided to do the operation. So, at last, he decides to do. In the morning, he did me the operation. The reason he did me the operation was I was 4 years old, so, we used to eat the sunflower, I didn’t take off the cover, and I just eat, eat, eat, eat a lot, I eat a lot, so eat a lot in my stomach, so it is full. So, when the operation finished, they took like……this much sunflower, from my stomach. That time I was 4 years old only, so, I was so young, finally he told me, I was heal now, he was really grate to me as well, so, when, like the person who is more professional…erm…how to say, from the city lah, in Myanmar, then they come to that told her I did operation, the doctor was very proud of me and say to everyone” Ahh, I did the operation to her and I heal her.” Wow, they all persuade, wow, very young. So, ya, there is my story. That time I was 4 years old, but I was so sad because my mother and my father divorced. My mother not with me, my father as well is not with me. Because my father got another wife, who is doing teacher, so they live in another house and my father went to the firm in Chin, we make a firm, a valid firm from our house, the firm that we paid rice and we eat. So, he went to the firm, so he slept there for like two… one week something like that. So, he couldn’t come to see me. So he came after 3 days, my father. And as well as my mother, she came after one week, because she lives in India, so she cannot come as soon as she wants. My father came to Malaysia at 2004 and I came, my father took me, because he thinks that I should study in Malaysia. Because in Myanmar, the school and how the way they study wasn’t as good as in Malaysia. So, he wants me to study in Malaysia. So, I came here in 2010, September, 10 of September I came here and I study in, I was choose communicate CSI for 2 years and 1 month. And after that, this year is the first year, my first year in this community. I think I improved my English and my study in this school. Now my mother is living in Myanmar, she got another husband as well. That’s all my story.

> Yes, of course. I miss. Actually I miss my mother, I miss my friends, I miss my old teacher, but I cannot see them. > > Actually I don’t remember at all, because I just study. I went to school, I came back, I eat, I sleep, I woke up I go to school that’s all. > > I study, so, I am happy. I enjoy and I am happy studying. But sometimes, I afraid of Malaysia’s police because I am refugee in Malaysia, sometimes, I don’t have UN card yet, I afraid of being caught by police. > > I want to go back if I finish my study. I want to meet with my real mother, and grandfather and mother. > > Actually if someone ask me this question, I was…erm…I don’t know. Actually I don’t know what I want to be in the future yet, I don’t know yet. Ya, my answer is, I not sure yet. ||
 * 1) 1. Do you miss your country?
 * 1) 2. What do you remember about your country?
 * 1) 3. How do you feel in Malaysia?
 * 1) 4. If got chance, are you willing to go back to your own country?
 * 1) 5. Do you have dream? What is your dream?


 * **The story of Kip Te ** ||
 * One day, there was a girl who called Kipt was born at Chin State of Myanmar. She is a hopefulness girl since she was young.

Unfortunately, her parents had divorced when she young. She was forced to stay in her aunty house. Her aunty and uncle treat her likes own child and love her very much.

One day, when Kipt is 4 years old, the tragedy happened. Little pity Kipt felt a badly stomachache even. She went to tell her aunty:” Aunty, my stomach is very pain.” However, her aunty is busy doing her business, so asked her to go toilet and ignore. Kipt try again and again in toilet but her stomach was still painful. She tried to sleep but she can’t. At night, her aunty came to her, she finally got chance to tell her aunty again how pain of her stomach.

At last, her aunty found that it might not be a normal stomachache and brought her to clinic as fast as she can. The doctor told them that she accidently ate the whole sunflowers so it is a must for her to have an operation or she will die soon. Kipt is so young, how pity is the small kid! Besides that, the doctor was no dare to do the operation as Kipt is too young.

Even though it was danger, this was the only chance for Kipt to survive. Her aunty begged the doctor many times. Latest, the doctor decided to do the operation for her.

Time passed through, her aunty was very nervous but what she can do was only waiting outside. Finally, the doctor came out from the operation room. He looked relief and smile happily. The operation was very successful and Kipt would recover soon. It was really wonderful news for her aunty whole family. After few days, Kipt’s father came to visit her and her mother came after a week.

However, it is not the end of the story. At 2010, Kipt’s father decided to bring Kipt to study in another beautiful country, which is called Malaysia. Sadly she has not getting her UN card so she was forced to be a refugee. Kipt has a small dream. She would like to go back to her own country to visit her mother after finishing her studies in Malaysia.

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