Thai Government Provides Humanitarian Assistance to Refugees from Myanmar

[webfact]

 

By Woraprat Lerpaisal

   

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Thai military has provided shelter and humanitarian assistance to more than 2,200 people who have fled the hostilities across the border in Myanmar.

 

Defense Ministry spokesman Kongcheep Tantravanich said the military has set up a safe zone, where those who cross the Salween River, which forms the natural border between Thailand and Myanmar, in Mae Hong Son, are being accommodated.

 

He said the area is under maximum control and has been declared off-limits to unauthorized persons, with strict health and safety measures in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

 

Earlier, Mae Hong Son governor Sitthichai Jindaluang assured Katsunori Koike, a visiting United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees protection officer, that the refugees have been given shelter, health assistance and other necessities as a humanitarian measure.

 

-- © Copyright NNT 2021-05-11

 

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[phantom51red]

14 hour days for 200bht,40 + packed into work trucks,nice job

[brianthainess]

Any NGOs allowed in yet or is it still not allowed to actually see inside these camps ? *Assurances* of humanitarian treatment is not good enough I.M.O.  

[hotchilli]

Opened up an old trafficking camp?

[Bradmeister]

Is that right? .....and we mercifully gave them free Covid tests to ensure they are not helping to spread the disease?

 

Oh, I understand.... they have to pay back the cost of the test via wages....got it.

 

 

[Burma Bill]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

has provided shelter and humanitarian assistance to more than 2,200 people who have fled the hostilities across the border in Myanmar.

 I wonder if the same sympathetic attitude will be shown to these Burmese folk (from today's press - 11 May) but I bet not:-

 

"BANGKOK (AP) — Three senior journalists working for a news agency in Myanmar who fled after the military government ordered its operations to stop have been arrested by police in northern Thailand, their editor said Monday. The three work for DVB, also known as Democratic Voice of Burma, an online and broadcast news agency, ................... Burma is the former name for Myanmar and is still used by some opponents of military rule. He said the three, along with two activists, whom he did not identify, were arrested Sunday in Chiang Mai during a random search by police. They were charged with illegal entry into Thailand, he said.

From photos published by local Thai media, it appeared that the journalists may have continued to report from a single-story house in which they seemed to have set up a makeshift video production studio......................... The statement also appealed for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees to intervene to protect the journalists' safety, and for the international community to ask the Thai government not to deport them."

 

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/police-thailand-arrest-3-journalists-162844517.html