Professor Siliq said they felt they had a right to be there, to take their share of the country's wealth after being economically deprived for so long.
But the group's latest annual report, released in February, notes some positive signs: Asia has a growing number of private television and radio stations and news websites to provide the public with information of which they have been deprived for so long.
"Better humanitarian access and more resources can't come soon enough for those who have been deprived for so long.
"We need to ensure that all of our children have an educational opportunity, even in the most remote part of the country, and to ensure they receive the basic social services they've been deprived of for so long," she added.
The doctors suspected the tissues had been deprived of water for so long that they now soaked up everything.
By the time Gov. Chris Christie took office this year, the pension funds had been deprived of contributions for so long that it had become near impossible to catch up.
"Here's Cleveland, this struggling community, deprived of winning for so long, and our hero walks out on us," he said.
As well as being beaten and threatened with execution he was deprived of sleep for so long that he began hallucinating.
"I am here in part to ask for practical help," she said, addressing a hall packed with Britain's political elite, "in support of the reforms which can bring better lives, greater opportunities, to the people of Burma who have been for so long deprived of their rights and their place in the world".
"I am here in part to ask for practical help, help as a friend and an equal, in support of the reforms which can bring better lives, greater opportunities, to the people of Burma who have been for so long deprived of their rights and their place in the world," she said.
