Projects | Urgent help needed: Crackdown at the rubbish dump of Mae Sot

The crackdown started on January 23, 2009 around 5:00 in the morning when everyone was sleeping still. Then it was followed by 3 more successive crackdowns on the same day. Men and women, children, babies, nursing mothers, pregnant women, were chased by police. They ran around the garbage area and heed off to the nearest jungle adjacent to the dumpsite leaving their few and only belongings. Their houses were ransacked and destroyed by the police.

Doniations for rice, clothes and shelter are solicited. Please use the Keyword Mae Sot.
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