People from Myanmar affected by postelection fighting

MAE SOT, Thailand - People from Myanmar aboard a boat cross a river to return to their country from Mae Sot, Thailand, on Nov. 9, 2010. They were among some 15,000 residents from eastern Myanmar who crossed the border to evade clashes between Karen ethnic rebels and the junta following the general elections.

Sample
PDF Preview

Product Code
ILEA001153898

Registered date
2010/11/09 00:00:00

Credit
Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

Media source
2010 Kyodo News

Media size
1889 × 1255 pixel

Resolution
240 dpi

Deployment size
735.51(KB)*

Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos

Myanmar ruling party chief admits election loss to NLD

YANGON, Nov. 9 Kyodo - Supporters for Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy gather in front of the party's headquarters in Yangon on Nov. 9, 2015, following voting in the country's first democratic election in decades. In her address to her supporters, Suu Kyi voiced confidence that her party would win the election.

Children at Umpiem Mai refugee camp in Thailand

MAE SOT, Thailand - Children get together in a library of Umpiem Mai refugee camp near Mae Sot, northwestern Thailand, in June 2014. Some 120,000 refugees from Myanmar including ethnic minority Karen remain registered in Thailand even following the end of junta rule in Myanmar. (Kyodo)

Japan eyes to accept more ethnic Karen refugees

UM-PIAM, Thailand - Ethnic Karen refugees are briefed by a Japanese government official on Japan's resettlement program for the Karen refugees, in Um-piam camp, which houses more than 25,000 refugees along the border Thailand shares with Myanmar, on May 3, 2012. Junji Ito, first secretary for political affairs at the Japanese Embassy in Bangkok, said Japan will extend the program to accept more Karen refugees.

Myanmar refugees at Thai camp

MAE SOT, Thailand - An official from Japan's Ministry of Justice (R back) talks to refugees from Myanmar in Mae Sot, northwestern Thailand, on Feb. 9, 2011, ahead of their departure for Japan under the ''third country'' refugee resettlement program.

Suu Kyi urges Japan to support democracy in Myanmar

YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi (C) and her son Kim Aris (R) visit a market in Yangon on Nov. 30, 2010. Suu Kyi urged Japan to continue supporting efforts to bring democracy to the junta-ruled country and said she will make every effort to unite the pro-democracy forces in the country during a telephone interview with Kyodo News the same day.

U.N. envoy Nambiar in Myanmar

YANGON, Myanmar - Vijay Nambiar, U.N. special envoy to Myanmar, reads out a statement to the media at Yangon international airport on Nov. 28, 2010, wrapping up his two-day visit to the country. Nambiar said he urged the Myanmar government to address criticism about the transparency in the general elections.

People from Myanmar affected by postelection fighting

MAE SOT, Thailand - People who fled from Myanmar stay in an ad hoc camp in Mae Sot, Thailand, on Nov. 9, 2010. They were among some 15,000 residents from eastern Myanmar who crossed the border to evade clashes between Karen ethnic rebels and the junta following the general elections.

Thai premier urges world to focus on post-election Myanmar

BANGKOK, Thailand - Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva speaks to Japanese reporters in Bangkok on Nov. 9, 2010, ahead of a visit to Japan. He said the international community should focus on the conduct of the Myanmar government following general elections, instead of simply finding fault with the process of the election itself.

People from Myanmar affected by postelection fighting

MAE SOT, Thailand - People from Myanmar sit in a boat in Mae Sot, Thailand, on Nov. 9, 2010, as they return to their country across a river. They were among some 15,000 residents from eastern Myanmar who crossed the border to evade clashes between Karen ethnic rebels and the junta following the general elections.