News Breaking and News Brief Jolie and Pitt visit Burmese refugee camp along Thai-Burma border
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by Mizzima News   
Thursday, 05 February 2009 19:41

Chiang Mai (Mizzima) - Hollywood star Angelina Jolie and her husband Brad Pitt on Wednesday visited a Burmese refugee camp along the Thai-Burma border in Northern Thailand's Mea Hong Song Province.

The star couple visited the Karenni refugee camp (1) unannounced on Wednesday and met several orphans, handicapped refugees and had words of encouragement for them.  

Jolie, who is the goodwill ambassador for the UNHCR, donated footballs to the children for them to play with and left the camp by 6 p.m. (local time)
 

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