Myanmar (MNN) — Hopelessness is rising among refugees in Thailand as threats of deportation loom. According to Vision Beyond Borders (VBB), plans are underway to send thousands of ethnic minorities back to Myanmar (also known as Burma) in 2017.
“They’re doing this based on the fact that [Myanmar’s] government is showing all these democratic reforms and changes. They [Thailand’s government] hope that this means the refugees will then be safe,” VBB’s Dyann Romeijn explains.
“All the information coming from the ethnic areas, where there’s still fighting, [shows] that they would not be safe,” she adds.
Myanmar’s leaders may have inched toward democracy, Romeijn explains, but the armed forces are a different matter. (Courtesy of Mission Network News)
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