Actress Angelina Jolie has spent the weekend in the Indian capital in her role of goodwill ambassador of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
With her five-year-old son Maddox, she toured an Afghan Sikh refugee camp in New Delhi, listening to children play religious music and chatting with students, a UNHCR statement said.
Some 9,500 Afghan Sikh refugees are in India. They fled Afghanistan after the Taliban seized power in 1996 and targeted non-Muslims.
She also visited the one-room home where a refugee from Burma lives with her three children, it said.
The woman, one of the 1,750 refugees who have fled Burma to India since 1982, told Jolie that she and her children left after her husband was arrested by the military government in Burma, the statement said.
Burma-India relations turned cold after the Burma military violently suppressed pro-democracy demonstrations in 1988, but relations have warmed in the past few years.
"I am grateful to the refugee families who spent time with me and shared their stories. They are remarkable, courageous people," the statement quoted her as saying.
Jolie has also met Indian Junior External Affairs Minister Anand Sharma and lauded India's help to the refugees.
"The wonderful thing that I have learned since I have been in India is there are many, many needs for your own people and yet you have all been so gracious and been so open to so many refugees over the years," Jolie said.
She has been in India for a month making a film about the murdered US journalist Daniel Pearl.
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