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The Tears - Refugees

A video about Refugees set to Suheir Hammad's piece on the K-Salaam hip-hop album. The pictures in this video were not taken by me. I only arranged into an original slideshow. The Dafur pictures were from National Geographic: Surviving Dafur: African Refugee Life I had to do some research, but found out that the New Orleans pictures were taken by a photographer named Jacob Applebaum. Thank you to everyone for the positive feedback on this video. I hope to make many more soon. If I find any comments to be offensive to any group of people, I will delete them.

October 2007 They risk all trying to make it across the North Korean border to China, only to find no guarantee of a better life. At constant risk of being deported, these refugees live a half life in the shadows. "I thought if I came to China life would be better", laments one woman. "I was wrong". Without Chinese language skills, most North Korean refugees remain at risk of being discovered by the police. "The police pay 200 yuan to anyone who discloses the whereabouts of North Koreans", explains one refugee. "That's what I'm most afraid of. I'm always hiding". Easy prey for the unscrupulous, they're forced to do dangerous jobs for little money. "Most North Korean women fall into the hands of human traffickers", states activist Tim Peters. "They're sold into prostitution". Unlike other countries, China classes North Korean refugees as economic migrants. If caught, they face return to Pyongyang and almost certain execution. "North Koreans are being sent back by the hundreds", complains Peters. Without external pressure, the situation for these refugees is unlikely to improve. Their only hope is that scrutiny surrounding the 2008 Beijing Olympics will encourage China to change its policy.

US troops help to evacuate civilians from Kontum as the North Vietnamese have taken the town. www.itnsource.com ITN T020572061

From "The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other" (1970) N. was somewhere years ago and cold: ice locked the people's hearts and made them old. S. was birth to pleasant lands, but dry: I walked the waters' depths and played my mind. E. was dawn, coming alive in the golden sun: the winds came gently, several heads became one in the summertime, though august people sneered... we were at peace, and we cheered We walked along, sometimes hand in hand, between the thin lines marking sea and sand; smiling very peacefully, we began to notice that we could be free, and we moved together to the West. W. is where all days shall someday end; where the colours turn from grey to gold, and you can be with the friends. And light flakes the golden clouds above: West is Mike and Susie, West is where I love. There we shall spend the final days of our lives... tell the same old stories: well, at least we tried. So into the West, smiles on our faces, we'll go; oh! yes, and our apologies to those who'll never really know the Way.... We're refugees, walking away from the life we've known and loved... nothing to do nor say, nowhere to stay; now we are alone. We're refugees, carrying all we own in brown bags, tied up with string... nothing to think, it doesn't mean a thing, but we'll be happy on our own. West is Mike and Susie; West is Mike and Susie; West is where I love, West is refugees' home.

Peter Hammill plays the Van Der Graaf Generator favourite "Refugees", from the unofficial live and solo album "Skeletons of Songs", accompanied by my own video compilation. Recorded live at the All Souls Unitarian Church in Kansas City (USA) in February 1978, Hammill explains that all songs when first written exist in their 'skeleton' form, and when playing live and solo none of the orchestration and overdubbing added later are included. Live and solo is by far my favourite way of listening to Peter Hammill, and this album is amongst my top ten all-time favourite albums without question. I have uploaded some of my other favourite tracks from this album (watch this space for more uploads). Please forgive me if the videos with each upload are similar, because there is a shortage of good footage, and the editing takes some considerable time. I compiled the video myself utilising footage mostly downloaded from YouTube, with some of my own added effects and filters. Please check out my other videos. Comments are most welcome.

Since early 2001, renowned American actress Angelina Jolie has traveled the world as a Goodwill Ambassador to UNHCR, The UN Refugee Agency. On World Refugee Day, she pays tribute to the forcibly uprooted and to the people who protect them.

It's ten years since the U.S. led military operation Desert Fox was launched in Iraq. Since then four million Iraqis have fled the country. More than 80,000 have found a safe haven in Sweden, but what are their chances of integrating into Swedish society?

As the communists are rumoured to have taken Hue hundreds of refugees arrive in Danang and scramble for places on boats to get them out of the area. www.itnsource.com ITN T260375041

Thailand and Laos have agreed to forcibly repatriate thousands of Hmong refugees currently living in Thailand to purpose built villages outside Vientiane, the Lao capital. Hannah Belcher reports for Al Jazeera from a Hmong resettlement village in the mountains of Vang Vieng.

As government troops in Sri Lanka continue to close in on Tamil Tiger rebels, life for those who've fled the fighting to India is becoming increasingly difficult. Matt McClure reports from Chennai, in southern India.

Thousands of Pakistanis are fleeing their homeland and escaping into Afghanistan. Fighting between Taliban and Pakistani forces began in August. Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports on the people caught in the crossfire.

January 2, 2008 -- Hundreds of internally displaced people camp at Nairobi's Jamhuri grounds as violence continues in the city.

Excerpt of © HUNTED LIKE ANIMALS © 2007, by award winning filmmaker Rebecca Sommer. Partly narrated by Hmong leader General Vang Pao. Hmong refugees explain why they fled Laos to Thailand. for more information and video clips vsist: http://www.rebeccasommer.org/ Ethnic Hmong Lao refugees explain why they fled South East Asian country Laos to Thailand's refugee camp Phetchabun. (Ban Huay Nam Khao, or White Water refugee camp) Most of the them lived for over 30 years in hiding, attacked and chased by ever increasing military forces, Laotian and Vietnamese soldiers, to this day! Over 1400 DVD of HUNTED LIKE ANIMALS were sent to governments, and the UN system. Even so the UN has no access to the people-in-hiding, or the refugees - HUNTED LIKE ANIMALS brings their voices to them. Please contact the filmmaker Rebecca Sommer, if you would like to purchase a DVD - or if you have questions: sommerfilms@gmail.com

A documentary filmed in late 2005 that brings the viewer close to the living conditions and unresolved problems for Palestinian refugees in the Lebanon camps. Viewers see the camps with a focus on the issues of health, unemployment, education and the cultural memory of this community of refugees expelled in 1948 and 1967 from their homes in historic Palestine. Producer: Red Hill Films Alternate Focus is available on the Dish Network, Free Speech TV, Channel 9415, Saturdays at 8:00pm EST and on cable stations near you. Check website for details.

Somali refugees talk about their harsh living conditions in Yemen.

Music Clip from the Refugee Camp Allstars feat. Pras (with Ky Mani)

Millions of Afghans have fled the bloodshed in their country over the past 30 years. Al Jazeera's David Chater reports from Chamtala camp in Afghanistan where many are returning to a bleak homecoming.

Seventeen years ago a refugee shelter was built in the northern Kenyan desert. Today it's the world's largest and oldest and it's growing. The Star's Michelle Shephard and Lucas Oleniuk traveled to Africa for this exclusive report.

Watch more at http://www.theyoungturks.com.

Thousands of the most vulnerable, already amongst Pakistan's poorest, have fled to Peshawar leaving behind only the young men behind to protect what few belongings they have.

05/01/08 - Women and children form the largest number.Jamuhuri park, Nairobi has been made a long home stay.

David Rubenstein (Executive Director of the Save Darfur Coalition) and actress Mia Farrow traveled to Darfuri refugee camps in Chad to document first hand testimonials from the victims of the ongoing genocide in Darfur.

The future of Iraq is to be the focus of an international summit in the Swedish capital this week. But the tens of thousands of Iraqi refugees living in Stockholm remain unconvinced by claims the situation back home is improving. Clayton Swisher reports from Sweden's'Little Baghdad'.

A group of Palestinian refugees, the first of 117, has arrived in Chile after being granted asylum. Al Jazeera's Lucia Newman travelled to La Calera to see how they are settling into a new life thousands of kilometres from Iraq - the country where they were born, and from where they were forced to flee.