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Thursday, December 04, 2008

Exiles wielding power from the UK

"Exiles wielding power from the UK

L-R: Kurdish women at the Western Kurdistan Association; young Tamil girl dancer; cafe owner in Edmonton Somali cafe

People fleeing conflict and persecution in Sri Lanka, Turkey and Somalia have found refuge in Britain since the 1980s. In the first of a series of articles, the BBC's Samanthi Dissanayake examines the power these diasporas are exerting on their homelands."

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