Angelina Jolie detailed the heartbreak of Iraqi and Syrian refugees in a revealing op-ed for the New York Times on Tuesday.
"For many years I have visited camps, and every time, I sit in a tent and hear stories," wrote the 39-year-old mother of six. "I try my best to give support. To say something that will show solidarity and give some kind of thoughtful guidance. On this trip I was speechless."
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She went on to describe conversations with refugees who've been gravely affected by the instability brought on by ISIS.
"What do you say to the 13-year-old girl who describes the warehouses where she and the others lived and would be pulled out, three at a time, to be raped by the men?" Jolie begs. "How can you speak when a woman your own age looks you in the eye and tells you that her whole family was killed in front of her, and that she now lives alone in a tent and has minimal food rations?"
The "Unbroken" director warns that without an end to the war in Syria the "spread of extremism, the surge in foreign fighters, the threat of new terrorism" will continue.
She suggests that countries able to offer sanctuary to refugees should do so. And most importantly to her, is finding a "path to peace" spearheaded by the international community.
"It is not enough to defend our values at home, in hour newspapers and in our institutions," writes Jolie in her first op-ed piece since revealing her double mastectomy to prevent breast cancer in May 2013. "We also have to defend them in the refugee camps of the Middle East, and the ruined ghost towns of Syria."
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