'No way home': Life inside a makeshift Myanmar refugee camp in Thailand - a ST Special write-up


A temporary shelter on the Myanmar side of the Moei river where displaced Myanmar people are staying. - The Straits Times/ANN

YANGON/BANGKOK, Feb 14 (The Straits Times/ANN): The lifeline for thousands of Myanmar villagers fleeing violence after last year's military coup begins in kitchens like this.

On a street in Mae Sot in north-western Thailand, around the corner from a Burmese tea shop selling breakfast fritters, two women buzz around a giant wok bubbling with red curry. They stir in dozens of fried eggs.

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