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Reuter: SLORC Attacked Thai Land



 SLORC Attacked Thai Land

    MAE SOT, Thailand, June 14 (Reuter) - Burmese troops and their allies
fired a dozen mortar bombs into a refugee camp on the Thai side of the
frontier, wounding three people and sending hundreds fleeing in panic, a
Thai army source said on Friday.
     The attack on the Shokhlo refugee camp in northwestern Thailand, home
to some 7,000 Karen people from Burma, began late on Thursday and ceased
after Thai border security forces fired mortar rounds at the attackers.
     The camp is only a couple of km (miles) from a border river.
     The Thai army officer said the attack was carried out by Burmese
troops and their allies in the area, members of a Karen guerrilla splinter
faction that broke away from the anti-Rangoon Karen National Union
guerrilla group.
     Burmese authorities say Karen refugee camps in Thailand are centres of
support for the anti-Rangoon rebel force.
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