karen boy washing his cow , mae la refugee camp(thai burmese border) , north of mae sot , tak province , north thailand

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Thailand has played host to Burmese refugees for nearly three decades. Gross human rights abuses by the Burmese government have prompted the outflows and created grave problems for its neighbor. The Thai government has pursued a humanitarian policy through which refugees fleeing conflict are afforded temporary asylum until the conflict in the area from which they fled ends. The refugee population in the camps has expanded from little more than 20,000 in the mid-1980s to nearly 350,000 and the numbers are ever increasing.

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Size: 5256px × 3517px
Location: mae la refugee camp(thai burmese border) , north of mae sot , tak province , north thailand
Photo credit: © pavlos christoforou / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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