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A long way from home
Spectrum, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 11/12/2016
» Mohammad, a teenage refugee, barely escaped becoming a child soldier in Somalia three years ago. "They [the militants] wanted to take me and use me as a child soldier but my grandmother refused to let me join them," the 16-year-old recalled of the incident in Mogadishu, the capital city where Mohammad, who uses an alias, was born and raised.
Out of a war zone, into a Thai prison
Spectrum, Jeerawat Na Thalang, Published on 07/02/2016
» Mustafa*, a Palestinian from Syria, was finally freed to leave Thailand last month. After serving almost two years in a Thai jail and one month in an immigration detention facility on charges of illegally entering the country, the 38-year-old was released to be reunited with his young daughter and wife.