Having fled their home country to escape oppression, what is to become of the thousands of Burmese refugees in Thailand?
With his crutches resting against the clinic bed, Than Tin rolls up his trouser leg, gingerly pointing to a heavily bandaged leg stump.
?All I remember is being blasted up in the air,? recalls the 48-year-old father-of-five, hoisting both arms to suggest the impact of the landmine. ?First was no pain, but half my leg was gone, but then it was like so bad burning.?
He was logging in the forests around Myawaddy, a trading town in Myanmar close to the border with Thailand, the site of one of the world's longest-running civil wars.
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