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Thailand: Burmese Democracy Activists Targeted by Thai Government

Imminent Round-Up Will Leave Refugees Incommunicado in Closed Camps

Source:
Human Rights Watch
Date:
March 29, 2005

Human Rights Watch has said that the purpose of this new policy, which affects some 3,000 Burmese refugees, is to destroy the small but vocal Burmese pro-democracy movement based in Thailand. UNHCR has protested these plans to no avail.

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