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ABDUL SAM-ON

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Kurier.at Abdul Sam-On:   You are a Burmese and you are 14 years old. For eight years, you have lived in Thailand. The Buddhist and highly militarized Burma, where you come from, uses to starve, hunt and kill people like you, because you are a Rohingya and a Muslim, and you are suspected of terrorism. At the age of 6, you were forced to go into exile with hundreds of thousands like you. After a very long walk, you crossed the border of Thailand. Since you do not have an identity card, under the law you have no rights, you don't exist, you are nobody. Since you don't even have the status of a refugee, you are not welcome in Thailand, but you are tolerated... However, you speak five languages: Burmese, Thai, English, Mandarin and Wa. You play the guitar, you go to school and you are an excellent football player in the  Wild Boars  team. Last July, during an excursion, you and your  Boars  friends, you found yourselves imprisoned in a very deep and extremely d