The Situation of Refugees on the Thai-Burma Border

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"Since the initiation of President Thein Sein?s limited reforms in Burma and the signature of preliminary ceasefires agreements with some of the ethnic armed groups, the issue of refugee return is becoming increasingly prominent. According to The Border Consortium (formerly the Thailand Burma Border Consortium) there are approximately 160,000 refugees on the Thai-Burma border. The governments of Thailand and Burma have made no illusions as to their aims: to repatriate the refugees as soon as possible. Donors and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have already started preparing refugees? return while community-based organizations (CBOs) that constitute and represent refugees are trying to bring the refugees? voices to the decision makers. The refugees themselves are suffering from a lack of information and clarity as to their own future and as such, tension and anxiety have been building in the refugee camps..."

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Burma Partnership

Date of Publication: 

2012-12-11

Date of entry: 

2012-12-17

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  • Individual Documents

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English

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