Two days ago, I was at Suckothai, the ancient city of the Thai people. It looked quite similar to the angkor wat, which I visited last summer in Cambodia. 

I was riding a bicycle, and wondering how this city looked about thousand years ago. Suddenly, my brother shouted that there is a gorgeous blue bird. I've never seen one....so I pushed my peddel faster....and it was more than just beautiful.

Suddenly, I was in a deep thinking........

I live in ChiangMai, the second biggest city in Thailand. Lots of tourists come each year to ride elephants and to see the long-neck womens. I also came to Chiangmai for better education after living in Bangladesh for 8 years. The best thing about Thailand was that I could eat pork, and bacon...where in Bangladesh, I couldn't even imagine seeing it on the market. Chiangmai is the land of joy and happiness...the foreign people say.

However, like ice cream has two faces by being sweet, but bad for health, Chiang Mai also has some different faces. If you travell about 2 hours from ChiangMai, there is a place called Golden Triangle place. This place was famous for trading drugs illegaly as it is the point where Burma, Laos, and Thailand meets through one river. The selling of drug has stopped, but there is something left that people don't want to talk about.....the bluebirds from the red country.

One day, the govermnet of Thailand has called my dad. He had no idea, but he went there because they said so. Since my mom and sister went to Canada for some reason, I went with him.

What I saw there was not animals, plants or anything like that. There were 10 to 20 korean or chinese looking people sitting on a small room. I was curious and asked my dad about who they are....and there were the bluebirds from the red country, the people who escaped from North Korea to find and seek for freedom. 

Suddenly, I remembered one thing that my friend in China told me about the North Koreans. One day, she was sitting on a chair of a coffee shop, and she saw group of people, with their nose tied up with a chain and walking like slaves that I saw in a picture of the Unites States history textbook, about the African slaves. Indeed, there were not Africans, the North Koreans. China had an agreement with North Korea to send back any illegal North Koreans in China. I also heard if that people are sent back, they are almost killed or has to go to a concentration camp until they die, worse than the one that Nazis had. I was so angry that they could treat a human being like that, but I realized that those people are right infront of me.

Those North Koreans has come to Thailand ( Golden Triangle) from China inorder to move to South Korea, where they can seek and have the true freedom. The thai officers wanted my father to translate their languages to thai because my dad was teaching thai to koreans at that time. With about 10 to 20 people, I saw one boy and I handed him some chocolate bars that I had.

I completely forgot about this incident. One day, I was looking through facebook like almost all teens do...and I found one video about North Koreans who escaped and resettled in South Korea. There, I saw the boy that I gave my chocolate bars to. He now looked really good, and he was chubby, which is good, because he was thin as a dry anchovy when I first saw him in the room. He talked about what happened to him during his escape...and I couldn't stop crying.....

He was about 6 years old when his mom and him decided to escape North Korea due to hunger. In North Korea, if one member of the family escapes, the whole 3 generations are executed. Despite of this, they escaped just for food. When they escaped North Korea through the Dumangang river, there was one chinese guy who offered them some money and a place to live. However, the result wasn't good. The men told his mom to first ride the car, and they took her without him and sold her to the sex industry as a sex slave.

He was also taken and sold to a house as a modern slave, but he escaped and had wondering around cities in China, trying to get some food. One day, he saw group of north koreans getting on a car secretely, and he also got there without knowing anything. And he was in Thailand, when I first saw him.....

Not all Koreans can escape as easy like this. They are killed, abused , and shot in their head just because he stepped out of the man made border for food....food.......which we as normal people eat daily and have almost no problem getting more food....

There are millions of North Koreans, still in China and many of them are still being sent back to North Korea, like a cow going to a butchery.....We need to help them, and I really hope that the unification of Korea happenes as soon as possible, to bring peace to the blue birds in the red country....