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Thousands of Refugees Flee to Thailand as Rebels Clash With Myanmar Army
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0:55Now PlayingFighting between Myanmar government forces and ethnic Karen guerrilas has sent about 2,500 villagers fleeing across the border into Thailand to seek refuge, a Thai Army officer said Friday.
Thai Border Patrol police were seen guarding hundreds of villagers who crossed the Moei river on Thursday to seek shelter in Thailand's Mae Sot district.
Local residents also reported two mortar shells landed on the Thai side, causing a fire in a sugar cane field.
Thai authorities later moved the evacuees – mostly women and children – to a temporary shelter set up at a local school and provided them with humanitarian assistance including shelter and food, and tested them for COVID-19.
The exodus was the biggest since April this year, when several thousand villagers from Myanmar's eastern state of Karen fled to Thailand following airstrikes by Myanmar military planes in territory held by the Karen ethnic minority.
They were allowed to stay for a few days and then returned to Myanmar.
The Karen are one of several ethnic minorities who have been battling for decades for greater autonomy from Myanmar's central government.
Fighting between the two sides is intermittent, but heated up after the military in February seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.
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