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Spiegel.de: Exploiting Thailand's Burmese Refugees: The Children of the Mae Sot...
They successfully fled the brutal military regime, but their path seldom led to a happier life. In Thailand, greedy entrepreneurs have been quick to exploit...
Battling for Blood Jade | TIME
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“The KIA say it's their land, so we have to give them money,” says Aung Thar Tun, a jade picker at Kayin Gyaung mine who lives under a sheet of tarpaulin with his 15-year-old nephew, another scavenger. “If we don't pay and their informers find out, they will shoot us.” High-level KIA officials acknowledged to me that taxes ...
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