Thailande - La vie des réfugiés birmans

Thousands of people every year flee Burma for neighboring Thailand. They are escaping conflict and persecution and are looking for work. Most end up doing casual labor in farms and factories while others become refugees, living in one of several crowded camps along the border. VOA's Daniel Schearf is in the Thai border town of Mae Sot, and looks at why Burmese are leaving and the challenges they face.

Au lendemain des "élections" en Birmanie, des milliers de réfugiés avaient fui des combats, dans la ville de Myawaddy, entre l'armée birmane (SPDC) et la DKBA, l'armée karen bouddhiste et démocratique, un groupe ethnique armé.

Dès le lendemain, les autorités thaïlandaises les ont incités à franchir la frontière en sens inverse. Les armes semblant avoir conclu une trêve, beaucoup de familles sont rentrées dans la journée de mardi. Mercredi matin, l'anthropologue François Robinne, directeur de l'Institut de Recherche sur le Sud-Est Asiatique, a profité de son premier séjour à Mae Sot pour aller voir ceux qui étaient sur le retour.

Since 1989, the Mae Tao clinic, on the Thai-Burma border, has been a health care haven for desperate refugees seeking medical aid. Now, funding cuts threaten vital services for many. Steve Sandford reports from Mae Sot, Thailand.



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The Burmese people fled their country to neighbouring Thailand to be able to celebrate humanity within their culture, customs and spiritual beliefs -- even in the midst of their undocumented lives in the squalor of the rubbish dumps.
In Thailand, they live in and rely upon rubbish dumps for their survival and to avoid being captured by Thai police.