After thousands of refugees fled Myanmar to Thailand due to the latest outbreak of violence, the deputy governor of Tak province, Surapol Wongsukphisarn, said yesterday that around 1,000 refugees had voluntarily returned home.
This news comes after it was reported yesterday morning that thousands of people seeking refuge in Tak’s Mae Sot and Mae Ramat districts. The heavy fighting in Myanmar’s Myawaddy region between the alliance of the People’s Defence Force, the Karen National Liberation Army, and the Myanmar military, against Border Guard forces, lasted for three days. The fighting forced over 9,000 Karen villagers to flee across the border into Thailand’s Mae Ramat and Mae Sot districts.
Over 8,000 remain in temporary shelters in Thailand, with many of them waiting to see how the situation develops…
