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Thailand is estimated to be home to 130,000 refugees and asylum-seekers, which the country deems illegal migrants, according to Asylum Access, a nonprofit advocacy group. About 90% of refugees are from neighboring Myanmar, whose ethnic minorities have spent decades fleeing government forces controlled by the dominant ethnic Bamar.
Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times