Word: thailander
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...saying that the almost unanimous testimony of refugees in Thailand and that of other witnesses is incorrect...
...celebrities were among the 100 participants in last week's much touted "March for Survival," organized by the International Rescue Committee and Doctors Across Frontiers, a French aid organization. When this earnest band reached the Cambodia-Thailand frontier they shouted an appeal through a red bullhorn, asking that they be allowed to cross the bridge to Cambodia with 20 truckloads of food and medicine. Rebuffed, the marchers donated the relief supplies to Cambodian refugees in Thai camps...
...occupiers, who denounced it as an act of "hostile interference" in the country's internal affairs. Nonetheless, the march helped renew the world's interest in the country, at a time when its situation-at least for now-seemed to be improving. After a tour of the Thailand-Cambodia border last week, TIME'S Hong Kong bureau chief, Marsh Clark, found that conditions have changed so much in the past 13 months that the Western public's perception of Cambodia is a mixture of fact and fancy. Clark's report...
FACT: There are now about 150,000 Cambodians in refugee camps well inside Thailand. An estimated 740,000 Cambodians, mostly civilians, are within a short distance of the border on the Cambodian side; it takes a considerable amount of imagination to speculate that they will all die of starvation or be killed...
...said the communists brainwashed him and in attempts to escape he walked through mine fields. Nearing the Thailand border, he watched as members of the Thai government turned away 7500 of his fellow refugees...