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Angelina Jolie and Maddox Visit Refugees
Monday November 6, 2006


Meeting with refugees, above, and a government official below. Landov (top), Polaris (bottom)

Angelina Jolie took a break from shooting her latest film A Mighty Heart and spent Saturday touring an Afghan Sikh refugee camp in New Delhi, the Associated Press reports. Jolie, a goodwill ambassador of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, took five-year-old son Maddox along as she visited refugees, listened as they played religious music, and chatted with students.
 
Roughly 9,500 Afghan Sikh fled Afghanistan for India after the Taliban seized power in 1996 and targeted non-Muslims.
 
Jolie, 31, also visited the one-room home where a refugee from Myanmar lives with her three children. The woman, one of the 1,750 refugees who have fled Myanmar to India since 1982, told Jolie that she and her children left after her husband was arrested by the military government in Myanmar.
 
"I am grateful to the refugee families who spent time with me and shared their stories. They are remarkable, courageous people," Jolie said in a statement released by the UNHCR. On Sunday, Jolie met with Indian Junior External Affairs Minister Anand Sharma and praised India's efforts to assist the refugees.
 
"The wonderful thing that I have learned since I have been in India is there are many, many needs for your own people and yet you have all been so gracious and been so open to so many refugees over the years," Jolie told reporters.
 
Jolie is scheduled to return to the western Indian city of Pune to resume shooting A Mighty Heart, a movie about the life of American journalist Daniel Pearl, who was abducted and murdered in Pakistan in 2002 while researching a story on Islamic militancy.
 
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