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Apolitical Burmese students preferred, NATION
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MARISA CHIMPRABHA
The Nation (Thailand)
07-21-2000
AUSTRALIA'S resettlement program prefers Burmese students from
Thailand who have no political background and ambition, because of concerns
they may try to return to Thailand to cause trouble, a well-informed source
said yesterday.
Australia does not want trouble with Thailand caused by Burmese
students settling there and given an Australian passport later conducting
political activities on Thai soil, the source said.
"Canberra witnessed much chaos in Thailand, which was the work of
foreign dissidents who resettled in a third country under a UN ...
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