Little Hope for Burmese Refugees in Thailand

Clear Path International has been assisting Burmese refugees on the Thailand - Myanmar border since 2001.

From the EPOCH TIMES:

Over half a million displaced Burmese fleeing aggressive military operations in Myanmar are creating a humanitarian disaster area along its border with Thailand.

Aid agencies maintain that Burmese troops have destroyed nearly 3,000 villages in the last ten years. They say an unmanageable health crisis is now developing in the refugee camps in Thailand that line the frontier.

"In displaced areas, one in five children will die before their fifth birthday," says Nobel peace laureate Dr. Cynthia Maung, who runs a medical camp on the turbulent Thai-Burma border.

Largely from Myanmar's ethnic minority Karen and Karenni groups, 140,000 Burmese refugees are sheltering in nine camps in isolated patches of jungle along the frontier.

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