Thailand reopens access to Mons

Thailand reopens access to Mons

BANGKOK (AFP): The Thai authorities are scheduled to reopen
today a frontier access to 6,000 Myanmarese Mon refugees who were
forced back into their country by Thai security forces last week,
police said.

Blockades between Thai territory and the Holokhani camp will
be taken down so that humanitarian groups can get food to the
refugees, Mon sources said.

Thai frontier police and army forced the Mon refugees to
return to Myanmar by virtually laying siege to their camp in
Thailand, where they came in July to escape Myanmarese army
repression.

Human rights groups, including Amnesty International,
protested the Thai action.