Bkk Post - Karen moved

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Bangkok Post - Aug 25, 1999.

Karen moved

Tak-A first batch of 200 Karen refugees was moved from a camp in Mae Sot to
a shelter in Phop Phra district on Monday.

The Karen are among 8,000 to be moved for their own safety from Huay Kalok
to a deteriorating forest reserve at Ban Um Piam-Mai in a 40-day operation
involving 20 trucks.

More than 100 Thai officials and United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees staff are engaged in the operation supervised by a Fourth Infantry
Regiment task force.

The army proposal to move refugees at least 10km from the border and the
threat of renegade attack was supported by the National Security Council,
the Interior Ministry, the UN refugee agency and NGOs.