遣返泰難民營內緬甸難民面臨挑戰

Efforts to repatriate over 98,000 ethnic Burmese refugees to Myanmar with United Nations support are making slow progress but coming under growing pressure as international donors cut funds to camps in Thailand where the refugees are living.

Humanitarian workers say the funding pressures come against a back drop of security uncertainties as well as issues of inadequate infrastructure and health systems in southeast Myanmar after years of conflict.

The nine camps on the Thai border have been in place since the mid-1980s as refugees flooded into Thailand to escape conflict between armed ethnic armies and the Myanmar military.

But programs to repatriate the refugees have increased as Myanmar, also known as Burma, has moved to democracy after the election of the civilian government under Aung San Suu Kyi in 2015.在聯合國支持下向緬甸遣返9萬8千名緬甸難民的努力進展緩慢，隨着國際捐助者削減爲泰國難民營提供的經費，遣返工作面臨越來越大的壓力。

人道工作人員表示，資金壓力正好又遇到由於連年衝突導致緬甸東南部的基礎設施和衛生系統嚴重不足，以及安全形勢動盪不定帶來的困擾。

泰緬邊境地帶的9座難民營是1980年代中期設立了。當時緬甸難民蜂擁至泰國，以躲避少數族裔武裝和緬甸軍方之間的衝突。

但是隨着緬甸選舉，在昂山素季領導下的文官政府2015年建立，緬甸獲得民主，難民遣返項目也開始增加。