Tuesday December 28, 2010
GENEVA (Reuters) - Thailand forced 166 men, women and children back into Myanmar on Saturday even though they were fleeing fighting in their villages, prompting a reprimand from the United Nations refugee agency on Tuesday.
Fifty women, 70 children and 46 men at Wa Lay site in Tak Province, were ordered to leave, the UNHCR said in a statement.
The agency said that while it appreciated Thailand's policy of allowing in Myanmar nationals when fighting occurs, they should only be returned home voluntarily and safely.
"They were fleeing clashes between the government and ethnic rebels in southeast Myanmar. The people fleeing were Karen," UNHCR spokesman Babar Baloch told Reuters in Geneva.
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