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Nine refugee camps stretch along western Thailand's border with Myanmar, but Mae La, with a population of 43,000, is by far the largest.

"I came to the camp 10 years ago after the army burned our village and took our rice," one young mother told me.

Most of the camp's residents arrived after being forced to flee their homes due to the violence in Myanmar, as documented by the United Nations. Read full article »

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