@ FCCT Medecins Sans Frontieres Media Advisory (Hmong)

Got this in the mailbox.
Medecins Sans Frontieres Media Advisory

MSF withdraws from Hmong camp in Phetchabun because of Thai Military Restrictions and Coercive Tactics.

2.00pm – Weds May 20, 2009
Medecins Sans Frontieres has been compelled to terminate its medical relief program for refugees in Huai Nam Khao camp in Petchabun province in northern Thailand as a direct result of the Thai military’s scare tactics.

These tactics include pressuring ethnic Lao Hmong refugees to accept a forced return to Laos, and intensifying restrictions on MSF’s activities, such as trying to force MSF to temporarily cutting food distributions to the refugee population and forcing patients to pass through military control to obtain medical care, have compelled

Medecins Sans Frontieres has provided humanitarian assistance to the Hmong refugees in Huai Nam Khao, since 2005. As the sole international presence in the camp, MSF is issuing a final appeal to the Thai and Laotian governments to immediately stop deporting the Hmong refugees in Huai Nam Khao and to allow an independent third party to review the refugees’ claims for protection and to monitor any repatriations.

Speakers:

– Gilles Isard – MSF’s head of mission in Thailand
– Angela MAKATA – Field coordinator
– Pierre-Alexis DEMAY – Clinical psychologist

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Just like por previous experiences from the other “camps,” the infrastructures are ready to be accessed, but you have to ask the military first.

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