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| Southeast Asia |
| Â 20,000 flee Myanmar clashes |
| 2010-11-10 |
| [Geo TV] Some 20,000 people crossed from Myanmar into Thailand to escape festivities between government troops and ethnic rebels following Myanmar's first elections in 20 years, Thai officials said Tuesday. More than 15,000 people had crossed into Mae Sot, fleeing fighting in the Myanmar town of Myawaddy in Karen State, said Tak provincial governor Samard Loyfar. A second pocket of unrest further south pushed some 5,000 people to seek refuge across the border on Monday, said local Kanchanaburi district chief Jamras Srangnoi, but many had returned to their homes. |
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