A refugee camp packed with Karen refugees in Thailand.
BANGKOK, THAILAND (BosNewsLife)– Thailand has denied forcing back more than 2,000 mainly Christian refugees fleeing deadly airstrikes in neighboring Myanmar despite video footage suggesting many boarding boats under Thai soldiers’ watch.
Myanmar Army fighter planes launched airstrikes on a predominantly Christian Karen village Saturday, March 27 killing at least three and injuring eight, according to Christian aid workers. Footage seen by BosNewsLife showed a young girl among the thousands of Karen forced to flee from their homes by the military bombardment in Myanmar, also known as Burma.
There was a second bombing raid Sunday, March 28, against villages and a displacement camp in the Mutraw district of the Karen area in Myanmar, said Barnabas Fund, an aid group working in the area. It forced a further 3,000 to flee across the border into Thailand, Barnabas Fund added. Aid workers called the airstrikes “the most severe
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