The Ban Valley School, in Phop Phra district of Thailand’s Tak province, which is close to the border with Myanmar where fighting is underway between Myanmar government forces and Karen rebels, has been repainted blue and a huge Thai national flag has been raised, which is visible from a great distance.

 

The new colour scheme and flag follow last Thursday’s brief incursion by a Myanmar MiG-29 into Thai airspace over Phop Phra district, during a bombing run on a Karen rebel camp near the Thai border. The incursion caused panic among residents of two Thai villages and prompted the Ban Valley School’s administrators to order their students to take cover in a bomb shelter on the compound of the school.

 

A school official said that the visual changes to the school are part of the precautions against a potential spill-over of the fighting in Myanmar, adding that air raid drills have been conducted at the school.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/students-at-school-on-thai-myanmar-border-undergo-air-raid-drills/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2022-07-05

 

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What do the kids in Myanmar do....live with the atrocities?

28 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

What do the kids in Myanmar do....live with the atrocities?

It is that or die from them!

If a mig29 is that poor at navigation then the Karens are safe.

 

More destroyed children's lives by tin pot juntas

9 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

What do the kids in Myanmar do....live with the atrocities?

With respect:-

 

 

The Karen armed resistance is one the longest running rebel insurgencies in Myanmar.

https://www.dw.com/en/karen-conflict-rekindles-in-myanmar/a-5213040

Who cares these are just minor events buy your buddy init Prayuth.