Suicides Surge In Thai Refugee Camp: Migration Agency

By Pravit Rojanaphruk, Senior Staff Writer

 

An undated photo of the Mae La refugee camp in Trat province. Photo: IOM / Courtesy

 

BANGKOK — The suicide rates in a refugee camp along the Thai-Myanmar border have risen to three times the world average during the past two years, according to a report issued Monday by a UN-affiliated migration agency.

 

According to the International Organization for Migration, or IOM, only one person killed themselves in the Mae La camp in Trat province from June 2014 to May 2015, but 14 people took their lives the next year during the same period and 14 again in the year after that.

 

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Mae La is in Tak province, not Trat ....