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Sep 22 2009, Nicolas

French police broke up protests by refugee rights advocates and began clearing the squalid camp. The French government said it was targeting human smuggling and did not say where the migrants would be relocated.

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Map shows known travel routes of Myanmar and Bangladeshi migrants; 1 c x 5 1/4 in; 46.5 mm x 133.35 mm; 2 c x 3 3/4 in; 96.3 mm x 95.25 mm