Last month, Thai opposition MPs led a hearing on the Myanmar issue at the Thai Parliament. Some top leaders from NUG had the opportunity to attend the event. In general, they discussed helping the people of Burma. As a follow-up to that event, these days, Thailand has started providing humanitarian aid to Burma through the border.
The Thai Red Cross is providing humanitarian aid to Myanmar people fleeing the war through Thailand-Myanmar Friendship Bridge No. 2 in Mae Sot.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand announced that the transfer was handed over. It is said that the Thai Red Cross Society diverted 4,000 relief bags containing rice, food and other items for about 2,000 displaced people to the Burmese Red Cross Society under the coup military council.
The transfer of humanitarian aid is a bilateral cooperation between the Thai government and the military council, and it is said that it is intended to provide assistance to the people fleeing the war without discrimination, but the Thai government has not been able to support the ethnic resistance groups along the Myanmar-Thailand border. There has been no cooperation with civil society organizations, and cooperation with the military coup d’état will not reach the displaced people without discrimination.
On the side of the Karen National Union (KNU), community-based groups with nearly thirty years of experience in implementing humanitarian aid have 20 groups along the border. There are less than 30. The Thai government did not consult with these groups. In the current implementation, it will be done with the Myanmar Red Cross, the MRCS, which is the influence of the Military Council, which is unacceptable. Because that organization is completely under the control of the military council. All the people who are suffering because of whom it happened because of the action of the military council. If the Thai government really wants to help, it should provide assistance through community-based groups on the border. The current way of doing things will not reach the people fleeing the war who really need it.
