A French diplomat saved an Afghan refugee’s pet bird. Now it says ‘bonjour’ and has become a symbol of hope.

“In the midst of this, this military woman comes to me and she says, ‘Sir, we have a clandestine.’ I was like, ‘Okay, that’s a problem.’ So I go to see the clandestine, and they bring me this cardboard box in which there was a slit, and in the slit I could see the golden eyes of the myna.”