Photo Essays | Society | Southeast Asia
Refugees scrounge out a life on both sides of the Moei River bordering Thailand.
A peak across the border. Razor wire separates Myanmar from Thailand at Mae Sot along the Moei River. Civil war has blighted the country for five years and left about 93,000 people dead. Aerial bombardments are also continuing. Recent strikes killed at least 27 people, including a one-month-old infant and injured 10 civilians.
Between the Thai-Myanmar border towns of Mae Sot and Myawaddy, hundreds of people have found refuge from a five-year civil war that will be remembered for its relentless bombings by the military junta and its air force.
According to the latest figures from the United Nations, about 3.6 million people have been displaced by the conflict, with a stalemate emerging, leaving the junta in absolute control of just over 21 percent of the country.
