By ALEX ELLGEE
MAE SOT—Sitting on a mat in his small, well-decorated bamboo hut, Aung Htet talks about his life and what forced his family to flee to Thailand for safety.
Like many refugees in the Burmese section at the refugee camp here, he was sentenced to one of Burma’s notorious prisons as punishment for his involvement in Burma’s democracy movement.
Released and re-arrested several times, he saw no future for his family. Constantly harassed by the authorities, they finally fled to the border with hope of resettling in a third country.