More than 2,500 Karen refugees are taking refuge in a temporary shelter in the compound of a school in Mae Sot district of Thailand’s western province of Tak, while 77 others have returned to Myanmar.

 

The refugees, mostly women and children, have escaped fierce fighting, between Myanmar forces and rebels from the Karen National Union (KNU) in Myanmar’s Myawaddy township, into Mae Tao sub-district in the past week. Amortar shell landed in a sugarcane plantation on Thai soil on Wednesday, prompting the Thai Naresuan task force to submit a protest note to Myanmar via the local Thai Myanmar Border Committee.

 

Dr. Witthaya Polsila, the Tak provincial chief medical officer, said today (Saturday) that Thai health officials are ready to provide medical services to the refugees if requested.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/over-2500-karen-refugees-housed-in-a-school-in-thailands-mae-sot-district/

 

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3 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

Dr. Witthaya Polsila, the Tak provincial chief medical officer, said today (Saturday) that Thai health officials are ready to provide medical services to the refugees if requested.

How about English lessons, a visa and later employment?

Or are they all being sent back next year?

Yet, the hidden contradictory and fuzzy hypocritical policies of supporting the Burman regimes [for decades] continues on.

All a bit moot.

Burma is another good example of why military dictatorships do not make good governments.

This is a sad news story.

Nothing like barbed wire to give you that "just like home" welcoming feeling.