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A group of them is kept in a Thai
town - Mae Hong Son - nearby over the border. They fled a few
years ago because of the continuous fighting between government
troops and rebel groups at that time, actually the fighting has
calmed down.
The
Thai people supply housing and food
to them and the Padaung - long neck
women - quickly became a important economical factor for the
Mae Hong Son area since lot of
tourist come to have a look. This created a lot of quarreling between the
different cities and villages in the area, because only the
city housing the group get the windfall
profit, the other "look through the finger".
The problem is now, many of them want to go elsewhere to resettle in
Australia or New Zealand or simply going home. Since they are
a real
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