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Refugees Protest Over ‘Unfair’ UNHCR Program
Refugees on the Thai Burma border are furious over what they perceive as ‘bias’ in the United Nations High Commission for Refugees resettlement program.
Refugees from Nu Poe Camp, based in Thailand’s Tak’s province, on the Thai-Burma border, marched in protest, claiming that there was discrimination in UNHCR’s third country resettlement program.
Around 150 refugees took place in the January 22 march, local sources told
Karen News.
U Lin Lin, a leader of Nu Poe Camp Section 16 (A-B) who was at the protest, said that the refugees stood in front of Nu Poe’s UNHCR office for two hours to demand a ‘fairer’ third country resettlement program.