CHIANG MAI, Thailand -- Just days after the military staged a takeover in Myanmar, killing protesters and bombing villages, Thai aid activist Ben Svasti Thomson went into action. Before the big humanitarian agencies could react, he was slipping through the new regime's barred gates to cast lifelines across the country.
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Activist-diplomat supports victims of Myanmar takeover and trafficking
Humanitarian campaigner Ben Svasti Thomson among first to arrange help
Thai aid activist Ben Svasti Thomson meets with a teenager in the 1990s, when his Women Against AIDS group organized Thai women to stand up for their rights. (Courtesy of Women Against AIDS)
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