The Struggle of Burmese Refugees in Thailand { 29 images } Created 14 Oct 2007
October 2007
The forgotten Burmese in exile.
10.000 bamboo houses on a hill and surrounded by barbed wires where approximately 50.000 Burmese of the ethnic group Karen shelter since more than 20 years. This is Mae La, the largest Burmese refugee camp in Thailand. Today it is a bog. The rain has turned the steep streets of the settlement into a water torrent that impedes the traffic of its residents. They came up to here because over there, on the other side of the border, not very far from the settlement, the military dictatorship that govern Burma began exterminating them. Now they are more that 130.000 persons spread in 7 camps in Thailand and only a few of them in the old Karen State carry on fighting for the survival of their people.
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The forgotten Burmese in exile.
10.000 bamboo houses on a hill and surrounded by barbed wires where approximately 50.000 Burmese of the ethnic group Karen shelter since more than 20 years. This is Mae La, the largest Burmese refugee camp in Thailand. Today it is a bog. The rain has turned the steep streets of the settlement into a water torrent that impedes the traffic of its residents. They came up to here because over there, on the other side of the border, not very far from the settlement, the military dictatorship that govern Burma began exterminating them. Now they are more that 130.000 persons spread in 7 camps in Thailand and only a few of them in the old Karen State carry on fighting for the survival of their people.
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