UN chief says nations must make more safe options for refugees, recalls losing own home as boy
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appealed to the world to find new ways to provide shelter to refugees. People like him.
Speaking Monday to a group of Afghan, Syrian and other war refugees in Ireland, the U.N. chief recalled his family's Korean War escape.
Ban said: "One of my earliest memories is fleeing with my family into the hills surrounding my village. As we climbed in the rain, I looked back on the only world I knew: where I had played, where I had gone to school, where I had lived with my family. All of it was in flames."
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"I know at least some measure of what you are going through," he told the refugees.
Ban says nations must create more safe routes for migrants to use.