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Police raided a house in the northern province of Chiang Rai yesterday to find 71 Burmese migrants hiding inside. A Thai man who was also inside the house told police he was hired to pick up the migrants who had illegally crossed over the border from Myanmar and transport them to the house.

The migrants told police they were heading to Bangkok to find work. Unrest in Myanmar is ongoing since the military coup that took power in the country 14 months ago, and Burmese people continue to illegally cross over into mostly Thailand to flee the situation.

A civil war has broken out in the country between the military and a range of ethnic or politically-based opposition groups, calling themselves “the Campaign for Civil Disobedience”. The CDM has organised mass protests against the coup, but the military has responded with ruthless violence against civilian militia and airstrikes on…