‘No Happiness’: Misery for Myanmar Exiles Four Years on From Coup

SAMUT SAKHON, Thailand—Four years after Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup, the country is in the grip of a bloody civil war that has driven many of the country’s young across the border to Thailand.

There they scrape by doing hard jobs for little pay—often living in fear of being arrested and sent back to Myanmar.

AFP met three of them in Mahachai, a district of Samut Sakhon in Bangkok’s western suburbs known as “Little Myanmar” for its population of migrant workers.