Mae La is a refugee camp

Refugee camp

A refugee camp is a temporary settlement built to receive refugees. Hundreds of thousands of people may live in any one single camp. Usually they are built and run by a government, the United Nations, or international organizations, or NGOs.Refugee camps are generally set up in an impromptu...

 in Thailand. It was established in 1984 in Tha Song Yang District, Tak Province

Tak Province

Tak is one of the northern provinces of Thailand. Neighboring provinces are Mae Hong Son, Chiang Mai, Lamphun, Lampang, Sukhothai, Kamphaeng Phet, Nakhon Sawan, Uthai Thani and Kanchanaburi...

 and currently houses 30,000 refugees, with more arriving each week from Burma. Mae La Camp is the largest Burmese refugee camp. Over 90% are ethnic Karen

Karen people

The Karen or Kayin people , are a Sino-Tibetan language speaking ethnic group which resides primarily in southern and southeastern Burma . The Karen make up approximately 7 percent of the total Burmese population of approximately 50 million people...

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Links

http://www.tbbc.org/camps/mst.htm#ml Thailand Burma Border Consortium (TBBC)
http://asiabible.wordpress.com/mae-la-refugee-camp/
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/27/thai.karen/