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 ...

The Karen Refugee Committee at Ban Mae La Camp in Tha Song Yang district issued a statement announcing that the International Rescue Committee (IRC) – the main funder of border camps – would ...

In a bed in a hospital ward at Tha Song Yang, 45-year-old Maung Lay, from the Mae La refugee camp, had a bandage on his head. A fall during an epileptic seizure brought him there because the camp ...