young karen boy at refugee camp , mae la refugee camp , near mae sot , north thailand

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Nine refugee camps stretch along western Thailand's border with Myanmar, but Mae La and umpium are by far the largest, some 150,000 refugees from Burma’s nine main minority groups have been living at these nine isolated and closed camps on the Thai / Burmese border for up to 20 years, by far the biggest minority are the karen people

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Size: 5128px × 3433px
Location: mae la refugee camp , near mae sot , north thailand
Photo credit: © pavlos christoforou / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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