More than 2,500 Burmese were forced to flee and seek shelter in Thailand’s Tak Province amid the recent armed conflicts between a rebel Karen ethnic group, the Karen National Union (KNU), and the military regime in Burma.
About 2,503 refugees from Burma, 545 of whom are children, are being sheltered in Mae Sot, a district in Tak Province, according to Somchai Kitcharoenrungroj, deputy governor of western Tak Province.
