Security concerns in the aftermath of the killing of a Democratic Karen Buddhist Army commander has put paid to the plans for the new camp.

Camp plan abandoned, fear of attacks forces rethink by Don Talenywun Thursday, 02 July 2009 14:30 Mae Salid (Mizzima) – Plans to set up a new refugee camp near the Thailand-Burma border, to cope with the influx into Thailand of over 3,000 people fleeing fighting in Burma, have been abandoned. Security concerns in the aftermath of the killing of a Democratic Karen Buddhist Army commander has put paid to the plans for the new camp. Colonel San Pyone, the DKBA’s commander of Battalion Seven

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