Myanmar refugees in Thailand

Myanmar refugees return to Thailand after Myanmar military airstrikes in Karenni State, November 16, 2023 / Photo HRW
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01 December 2023
HRW: Thai pushbacks endanger people fleeing airstrikes in Karenni State
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28 July 2023
Fighting forces 9,000 Myanmar civilians into...
Fighting between junta and defence forces in Myanmar has forced over 9,000 civilians to...
People fleeing fighting between the Myanmar military and ethnic rebel groups shelter on the Thai side of the Moei river, in Mae Sot district in Tak province on April 7, 2023. Photo: AFP
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11 April 2023
10,000 flee from Shwe Kokko fighting to Thailand
Over 10,000 residents of the Shwe Kokko area of Myawaddy Township in Kayin State have...
(File) Hundreds of Rohingya refugees enter Bangladesh from Budichong, Myanmar through the Palongkhali border in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, 09 October 2017, after crossing the Naf river. Photo: Abir Abdullah/EPA
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08 January 2020
Refugee Conundrum: Little movement in Myanmar’s...
Myanmar holds the dubious distinction of coming in fourth in a list of five countries in...
Myanmar refugees pass the huts housing refugees at the Mae La refugee camp on the Thai border with Myanmar, in Tak province, north-western Thailand. Photo: EPA
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06 December 2019
Prawit asks UNHCR to speed up processing
Thailand has urged the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to speed up...
Kayah State Chief Minister U L Paung Sho welcomes Myanmar Nationals from Thailand on 2 July 2019. Photo: MNA
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03 July 2019
Refugee repatriation from Thailand continues
The second day of repatriation of the fourth batch of Myanmar nationals from Thailand on...
Myanmar refugees at Mae La refugee camp near the Thai-Burma border in Tak province, north-western of Thailand. Photo: EPA
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13 April 2019
NGO calls on British government to provide more...
Questions have been raised as to whether British government aid for Myanmar is enough to...
Ma Thay, a refugee from Ban Mae La camp, receives non-food items(NFIs) before a departure to Myanmar during the voluntary repatriation, 20 February 2019. Photo: UNHCR/Chattriyaporn Singchum
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21 February 2019
Third group of Myanmar refugees return home from...
This week more than 500 refugees in Thailand are expected to return to south-eastern...
Children playing in Mae La Oon refugee camp. Photo: Burma Link
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18 September 2018
Toddler killed in mudslide at Thai refugee camp
A two-year-old girl has died and seven others remain missing after a mudslide at a...