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Article: BURMESE REFUGEES MAY BE ON WAY.(News)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- June 13, 2006
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Byline: Renee K. Gadoua Staff writer
For 16 years, Eh Kler risked his life as a backpack medic, carrying medical supplies to Burmese citizens without health care or injured in the civil war.
"They need us," said Kler, who has lived in Syracuse 10 months.
He and nine other Burmese natives waited on Syracuse's Amtrak train platform Monday for Dr. Cynthia Maung, who founded a clinic in 1989 in Thailand near the Burmese border.
Kler is one of dozens of health care workers Maung trained to work at Mae Tao Clinic in Mae Sot, Thailand, a sanctuary for Burmese refugees run by a woman some international media accounts describe as "Burma's ...