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Mass Karen Exodus Could Presage Beginning of Humanitarian Crisis
November 9: Fighting between the Burmese military and a breakaway Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) faction, supported by Karen National Union rebel troops, caused the mass exodus of over 20,000 Karen refugees into Thailand, yesterday, Nov8. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Monday said Thailand will give humanitarian aid to the minority refugees, but does not want them to be “an endless burden for the country”. The 20,000 plus refugees add to the quarter-million ethnic minority refugees already sheltering in three Thai districts from what were described as ‘brutal campaigns by the Myanmar Army’.

