Karen Refugee Committee Criticizes Refugee Repatriation Process

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"The Karen Refugee Committee (KRC), a community-based organization that has been facilitating the needs of Burmese refugees in Thailand, has said that they feel they were neglected in decision-making processes and were not invited to cooperate in recent refugee repatriation efforts. On October 25, the Thai government and the UN refugee agency, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), repatriated a reported 71 Burmese refugees to Karen State, Mon State, and Tenassarim and Rangoon divisions. Some refugees have since reported that they are unhappy with the circumstances of the return—they report having been asked to buy into low-income housing, a cost for which they were not prepared. Sources close to the refugees have also reported that some of unhappy returnees are trying to come back to the refugee camps in Thailand. Two families have reportedly returned to Nu Po camp on Thai-Burma border, said the sources..."

Creator/author: 

Saw Yan Naing

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Karen Refugee Committee (KRC) via "The Irrawaddy"

Date of Publication: 

2016-11-15

Date of entry: 

2016-11-16

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English

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