Thai-Burma border
There are 150,000 Burmese refugees living in refugee camps along the Thai-Burma border. These refugees have fled from conflict and human rights abuses in Eastern Burma. Almost all have seen friends and family taken away or killed in Burma and many have themselves been subjects of abuse.
Large numbers of ethnic Burmese have sought refuge in Thailand for over twenty years, leaving their homeland to live life in refugee camps and facing an uncertain future.
In addition to this there are an estimated 200,000 refugees living outside camps and as many as 2,000,000 migrant workers living in Thailand, many of whom have fled from the same human rights abuses as those in the camps.
Along the Thai-Burma border KSDP provides aid and support to Karenni camp Site 1 and to the Karenni village of Huay Pu Keng.
Karenni Camps
There are approximately 23,000 Karenni living in two camps near the town
of Mae Hong Son, Thailand. The largest Karenni camp was formed in 1996 when
three Karenni camps merged. Since 1996, the population of this camp has
increased from less than 2,000 to almost 20,000.
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