Displaced on the Border

The Irrawaddy | Shwe Zin | 12 JANUARY, 2022

With their meager belongings, ethnic Karen internally displaced people who fled fighting in Karen State’s Myawaddy live in makeshift huts on the silty soil that lines the bank of the Moei River, which marks the Myanmar-Thailand border. It has been nearly a month since they had to leave their homes to avoid being hit by the bullets, artillery shells and bombs fired at and dropped on them by Myanmar junta troops and aircraft.