Around 1,000 Karen hill tribe individuals crossed the border into Thailand on Saturday, only for Thai authorities to send them back, based on an official from a refugee camp. This month, over 10,000 Karen from Myanmar’s Kayin state have fled after clashes between Karen rebels and Myanmar’s military.
Now, Burmese police have arrested a reporter for the Karen Information Centre. The reporter’s title is Nay Naw, in accordance with a supply near the family. The source mentioned Nay was summoned to the station twice for questioning on Monday, and detained in the course of the second assembly. The supply informed Radio Free Asia he didn’t know where Nay was detained, however he and the household had heard Nay was being held within the Myawaddy Myoma Police Station.
“We don’t know if he has been tortured or beaten”.
Meanwhile, the Karen who fled to the Thai border camp out along the river there. According to one Karen girl, those camping don’t have sufficient food, shelter, blankets, or medicines. Myanmar’s Junta Deputy Minister of Information Major General informed RFA the junta is preparing to to arrange temporary shelters for refugees in and around Myawaddy.
“If No problem ’s going to take time for them to return to their places of residence, we think about them to be [displaced persons]. If it isn’t, it’s considered a short lived evacuation”.
Just weeks ago, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights accused Myanmar’s army of burning alive women and youngsters within the Kayah state, another Karen-majority state..