Between February 20th and 23rd 2019, more than 500 men, women and children from five refugee camps, including Karenni refugees camp in Thailand, returned to Myanmar. KHRG interviewed 13 repatriated refugees in Mae La Way Ler Moo and Lay Hpa Htaw resettlement sites to understand how resettled refugees are adjusting to their new lives.
These are some issues that they raise:
The journey to their new homes was spent cramped in the back of dusty trucks, without enough food or water.
A lack of basic social services, agricultural lands and income-generating opportunities awaited them on their arrival to resettlement sites.
In Mae La Way Ler Moo, there is a Tatmadaw army camp close to their new homes, and lands used for farming by displaced populations are contaminated by unexploded ordinance (UXOs).
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