The camps are overseen and run by the Thailand Burma Border Consortium (TBBC), a union of 11 international non-governmental ...

The Karen Refugee Committee at Ban Mae La Camp in Tha Song Yang district issued a statement announcing that the International Rescue Committee (IRC) – the main funder of border camps – would ...

but Mae La, with a population of 43,000, is by far the largest. "I came to the camp 10 years ago after the army burned our village and took our rice," one young mother told me. Most of the camp's ...