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...orphans: Nang Nang, a shyly smiling girl in a grubby tracksuit, shares a tin-roofed dormitory with dozens of other girls who sleep on a wooden platform over a mud floor. For many, this has been home for five years, but not for much longer. The dormitory lies in Thai territory, insists the Thai army, which on June 1 ordered the orphanage and more than 60 Shan families living nearby to move back into Burma?and closer to the scene of the fighting in April between the S.S.A. and the Burmese junta's ally, the 16,000-strong United...
...groups are fighting for independence from the rule of the military junta. In recent months, the Burmese army and its proxies have stepped up efforts against ethnic insurgents such as the Shan and the Karen, driving thousands of refugees into Thailand. There, they receive cold comfort. The Thai government does not grant official refugee status to the Shan, who are deemed illegal migrants unless they cross the border to flee war. "We have to act according to immigration law," insists government spokesman Colonel Chaleumdej Chompunuch, who says up to 900 Shan have now been moved back into Burmese territory...
...This distinction is narrow and dishonorable, says Sunai Phasuk, a Thai academic and consultant for Human Rights Watch (HRW). "These people are not just fleeing war, but also forced labor, executions, mass relocations and systematic rape," he says. HRW accuses Thailand of "violating international law" for denying basic humanitarian assistance to the Shan. A recent report by the New York-based NGO also documents the murder, rape, enslavement and brutal displacement of hundreds of thousands of civilians during the Burmese army's long-running assault on Karen insurgents; some 650,000 people, says HRW, have been made homeless in eastern...
...billion Amount a Thai court last week ordered former Central Bank governor Rerngchai Marakanond to pay for foreign currency reserves he expended on unsuccessfully defending the Thai Baht from speculators during the 1997 financial crisis
...season; operates an all business-class charter for oil companies from Houston to Luanda, Angola; has signed a commercial contract to start flying from Washington to Kabul, Afghanistan, as soon as U.S. authorities determine that the airport is secure; and was recently hired by Air Canada and Thai Air to provide cargo services...