Coup strands over a million Myanmar workers in Thailand

Largest Burmese community abroad can only watch the unfolding misery

People attended a candlelit prayer vigil outside the U.N. offices in Bangkok on Mar. 4 for those who died in anti-coup protests in Myanmar. © Reuters

APORNRATH PHOONPHONGPHIPHAT, Nikkei staff writer March 12, 2021 13:53 JST | Thailand

BANGKOK -- More than one million workers from Myanmar living in Thailand are standing by helplessly as the military ramps up brutality in their home county to try and break the civil disobedience movement.

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