THE KAREN
There are over a hundred thousand Karen refugees in eight camps stretched out along the Thai-Burma border. Another hundred thousand people are displaced in Thai villages, forests, farms, plantations and work places. More than double that number of Karen are displaced inside Burma.

For refugees in the camps there are sympathetic donor groups and organisations. For those dispersed in Thailand outside of the camps, they may have a chance of survival, though there are many risks involved.

But it is the Internally displaced people, who are in most desperate need of help, moving from place to place, deprived of proper shelter, material, food and medicine, always in danger of being spotted by the search-and-kill military units, it can only be a matter of conjecture how long they can persevere and survive