CAMP refugees from the DEA Thailand (AP) - it is not surprising that Saw Tun Wai has little desire to return to Myanmar, even after the next elections its military leaders describe as a step towards democracy.
Flexible 52-year old teacher fled to Thailand walk on land rugged mountains in 2006, escaping a campaign of vicious and largely invisible army against ethnic rebels that shows no sign of late.
"The Government (wrongly) I accused of being a partner of the revolution," said Saw Tun Wai, which belongs to the Group ethnic Karen. "I was beaten and forced to confess."Then he said, it is press ganged working for the army as a carrier.
The prospects that the November 7 election will bring changes in their homeland seem negligible for 150,000 refugees in camps Thailand near the border with Myanmar, also known under its former name, Burma.
The Union solidarity and development supported by is a shoe upward polls, the first of the two latest décennies.Une constitution imposed by the military in 2008 ensures that generals will be require it for foreseeable future anyway.
Elections, said Saw Tun Wai, now a teacher in the Mae La refugee camp offer no hope for positive change, "for the Karen, or one of the people in Burma." Is the hope of one day becoming eligible for relocation to another country.
For refugees, a more immediate concern is a possible change in the attitude of Thai officials have indicated that they can send their home after the election.
The first camp was created in the years 1980.Des thousands of refugees were resettled overseas under the auspices of the United Nations, but a constant stream of newcomers inflates the populations of nine scattered camps on the Thai side of the border.
Rivers crisscross Mae La, the largest camp with a dirt track and picturesque approximately 47,000 people.
Dirt floors tea store, men smoke Burmese cigarillos, chatting in sweetened milk tea fire and screaming Thai video clips.The voices of children, chanting in Burmese and English lessons emerge from several schools of bamboo.
The prospect that the Thailand may consider a turning towards justice and electoral democracy in Myanmar - warranting the return of refugees - casts a shadow on their future.
Critical international high forced the Thai authorities to abandon a repatriation planned for February of 3,000 Karen refugees in another camp area appears to be littered with landmines.
Who came a few months after the Thailand repatriated by the force of more than 4 000 ethnic Hmong Refugees to Laos, despite international fears, they would risk of persecution.
At the end of September, Minister for Foreign Affairs Thai Kasit Piromya raised fresh concerns.
Speaking in New York City, he said that it would be launching "a comprehensive program for the people of Myanmar" in the camps for displaced persons, intellectuals that are running in the streets of Bangkok and Chiang Mai Province to prepare to return to Myanmar after the elections.
Kasit remarks were vague, and later, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thailand wants to prepare the refugees to return home "when the situation in their country is conducive to their eventual return."
Thailand clearly wants to send refugees and return of exiled politicians, but after the election of the situation in Burma is not modified, so it will be difficult for them to justify,"said Mark Farmaner campaign for Burma (UK), a group that pressure for democracy in Burma.
Human rights groups accuse army of rape, torture and executions rebelles.Ils areas Myanmar say villagers from military to work as porters and walk in advance of the military as landmine detectors columns humaine.Le Government denies the allegations.
You Ja, a teacher of 54 years, Kachin, ethnic fled Myanmar after distributing political pamphlets to anti-Government protests in 2007.
"The Burmese regime wants to destroy this camp, it is certain, but where shall we go?", he dit.Toutes our families are scattered everywhere and we have no maison.Comment can return in Burma??
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